Revenue sharing system that incentivizes content providers and registered users and includes payment processing

ABSTRACT

The computer-based method and system shares revenue with a content provider and registered users. A web page has supplied electronic content and ads with displays and hyperlinks to a corresponding advertiser designated web site. Associated sales referral fees are tracked based upon user click throughs. The content provider is incentivized because the system shares the associated sales referral fees with him based upon factors such as frequency of posting content, quality rankings by users, gross value referral fees, and page user-visitors. Registered user-visitors are incentivized by providing each with N quality ranking tokens and by sharing the referral fees with users who post tokens on content. The QA ranking formula accounts for the quantity of posted tokens, the sequential order of posting, the number of user-visitors, and the referral fee to the content provider. The fees are paid to debit card, credit card, or cell phone account payment processors.

The present application is a continuation-in-part patent application ofregular patent application Ser. No. 12/274,668 filed Nov. 20, 2008, nowpending, which claimed priority from and the benefit of earlier filedprovisional patent application Ser. No. 60/989,183 filed Nov. 20, 2007,the contents of both referenced applications being incorporated hereinby reference thereto.

The present invention relates to an Internet based system and computermethod which shares revenue between content providers and registeredusers and further incentivizes those content providers and registeredusers by sharing click-through revenue and permitting financialtransfers to users and providers via designated payment processor(s). Acomputer based method is also disclosed as is an information processingsystem and programming instructions stored on computer readable medium.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

With a variety of software tools, users can easily upload content andpost that content on the Internet. Examples of content include textentries, such as documents and written textual materials, for example,materials posted on various blogs, video content such as user suppliedcontent on Google videos, YouTube and MySpace, and photos taken by usersuploaded to Flickr, Face book and others. Unfortunately, this usergenerated content is oftentimes provided free of charge to the web siteor system operators. These web site operators place ads next to the usersupplied content and receive sales referral fees based thereon. Theusers who created the content do not monetary benefit from thedistribution and display of such content. Further, some Internetplatforms do not accept all types of user generated content.

In general, many of these systems, which enable a user to post usergenerated content, do not renumerate the user content provider in anymanner, such as sharing ad revenue derived from other visitors seeingthe user supplied content and then clicking through to advertiserdesignated web sites to purchase goods or services thereon.

OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION

It is an object of the invention to provide a single, simple Internetplatform server system which is user friendly and which enables a userto easily post his or her user generated content including text,electronic images or pictures, video, audio or other user createdelectronic content and incentivize the content provider by monetizingthe content with ads and then sharing the ad revenue.

It is a further object of the present invention to provide the user withsome type of monetary renumeration if the uploaded content isinteresting and generates additional traffic on the web page and website associated with the content provider. Interesting content isrewarded by other registered users posting quality approval “QA” tokenson the identified web page.

It is another object of the present invention to share ad referralrevenue with the content provider, the system operator and any otherperson or entity referring the content provider to the system operatorand the registered users posting quality approval tokens therebyincentivizing the content providers and the posting registered users.

It is an additional object of the present invention to increase therenumeration to the content provider based upon traffic on the contentprovider's web page, quality of the content ranked by visitors, andquantity of the content posted on other web pages by the user, whereinthe other user supplied content is posted to other web pages supportedby the system operator.

It is an additional object of the present invention to increase therenumeration to the content provider based upon content analysis,resulting in relevant ad insertion, and further based upon user-visitorhistoric analysis (for un-registered user-visitors, based upon referralsource, IP address and monitored site history during the present timeframe, and for user-visitors that log-in via their user name, based uponuser profile) resulting in further insertion of relevant ad materials,thereby increasing the ad revenue for the content provider and the website operator due to both content and visitor ad relevancy factors.

It is another object of the present invention to incentivize the contentprovider who supplied content to the published web page by sharing theassociated sales referral fees with the content provider based upon apredetermined formula accounting for a frequency of posting othercontent supplied by the content provider, quality “QA” rankings postedby registered user-visitors, a gross value of the associated salesreferral fees set by the corresponding advertiser designated web site,and the number of user-visitors who go to the published web page withthe supplied content.

It is a further object of the present invention to incentivizeregistered user-visitors by providing each registered user-visitor witha predetermined quantity of quality “QA” ranking tokens, by sharing saidassociated sales referral fees with some or all of registereduser-visitors who post quality tokens in conjunction with content on thead carrying web page based upon a predetermined quality ranking formulaaccounting for the quantity of posted tokens, the sequential order ofposting and the number of user-visitors who go to the published web pagewith the supplied content, and the shared content provider fee subjectto the posted quality tokens.

It is an additional object of the present invention to provide a paymentprocessing system enabling the content provider and the registered userto transfer earnings from the monetized content to his or her creditcard, debit card, cell phone or other financial-based account under hisor her control.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention is a computer-based method and system of sharingrevenue with a content provider supplying electronic content whereinsome electronic content is directly supplied by said content providerand some is preexisting provider controlled content from various thirdparty content web sites. The supplied electronic content is merged orinserted into a web page with advertisements relevant to the content andadvertisements relevant to a user-visitor. Each ad has a respective addisplay and hyperlink to a corresponding advertiser designated web site.A plurality of registered users and non-registered users view the mergedweb page. The method and system publishes the web page with the suppliedelectronic content and one or more ads with respective ad displays andcorresponding hyperlinks on the Internet at an assigned Internetaddress. Associated sales referral fees (click-through revenue) aretracked, via a tracking module, wherein a user-visitor selects an addisplay and hyperlink from the published web page and the trackingmodule monitors such acts. The content provider, who supplied content tothe published web page, is incentivized because the system shares theassociated sales referral fees with the content provider based upon apredetermined formula accounting for a frequency of posting othercontent supplied by the content provider, quality QA rankings posted byregistered user-visitors, a gross value of the associated sales referralfees set by the corresponding advertiser designated web site, and thenumber of user-visitors who go to the published web page with thesupplied content. The content supplier compensation formula may includeother information and user-related factors.

Registered user-visitors are incentivized by providing each registereduser-visitor with a predetermined quantity of quality QA ranking tokensand by sharing the associated sales referral fees with some or all ofregistered user-visitors who post quality tokens in conjunction withcontent on the published web page based upon a predetermined qualityranking formula accounting for the quantity of posted tokens, thesequential order of posting and the number of user-visitors who go tothe published web page with the supplied content, and the shared salesreferral fee allocated to the content provider who supplied the contentsubject to the posted quality tokens.

The shared sales referral fees are transferred, under the control of theincentivized content provider or incentivized registered user-visitor,to a designated payment processor such as a debit card accountmaintained by a financial institution; a credit card account maintainedby a financial institution; a cell phone account maintained by atelecommunications institution; an Internet-based payment processor; amicropayment processor; and a virtual currency processor. Further, thecontent provider or registered user-visitor, designated as a transferor,may transfer a designated portion of his or her shared sales referralfees to another registered user-visitor or another content provider, orto a designated charity. The transfer to any payment processor or anyother registered user or charity is subject to a transaction fee andpredetermined monetary thresholds.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Further objects and advantages of the present invention can be found inthe detailed description of the preferred embodiments when taken inconjunction with the accompanying drawings in which:

FIG. 1 diagrammatically illustrates both the system and the method formerging user supplied electronic content with preformatted web pages andrelational advertisements;

FIG. 2 diagrammatically illustrates supplementing the merged web pagesand also generation of the associated sales referral fees when a visitorclicks through a relational ad to a third party advertiser designatedweb site;

FIG. 3 diagrammatically illustrates the process or page productionroutine;

FIG. 4 diagrammatically illustrates the functional modules and theprocesses for the relevancy engine for the user supplied content;

FIG. 5 diagrammatically illustrates the ranking and revenue program andtracking modules;

FIG. 6 diagrammatically illustrates the preview upload and distributionsystem;

FIG. 7 diagrammatically illustrates the upload and preview routine;

FIG. 8 diagrammatically illustrates the preview system and distributionmethod and system;

FIG. 9 diagrammatically illustrates a system and block processes (whichmay be hardware implemented modules) for uploading content from thirdparty web sites, extracting previews and distributing previews to thirdparty sites to drive traffic back to the system operator's site;

FIG. 10 is a double ad-user relevancy program and a user-visitortracking system monitoring user relevancy ads on the processed web page;

FIG. 11 is a process flow chart showing functional modules orsub-systems for (i) automatic importation of user-controlled contentfrom third party web sites; (ii) multiple users, viewers, and registeredusers posting QA ratings or votes and comments; (iii) revenue sourcesinput (IN) the computer-based system; (iv) transaction fee module; and(v) payment processors;

FIG. 12 shows incentive categories generating views measured in cpm(clicks per 1000) and shared revenue the content provider, QA voters,the system operator, and others;

FIG. 13 shows the Quality Approval or QA Ranking Program; and

FIG. 14 shows the Account Maintenance Program.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

The present invention relates to a revenue sharing method and system fora user, who supplies electronic content (sometimes called herein a“content provider”) and a system operator who operates the system,provides a user friendly platform to commercially exploit user suppliedcontent, and a method and system of sharing revenue with registeredusers who rank or rate content with QA tokens. These revenue sharingsystems incentivize users and drive traffic to the system operator siteand the user supplied content thereby driving additional traffic torelational advertisers. Similar numerals designate similar itemsthroughout the drawings.

FIG. 1 diagrammatically illustrates the system and the method of mergingelectronic content, supplied by user, with preformatted web pages havingrelational advertisements thereon. System 10 is operated by a systemoperator and generally includes functional components such as contentfilter 20, content analyzer and category selector 22 (a categorycomparator), a data collection or database of preformed web pages 24 andrelational ads, a compiler integrating the electronic content from theuser with the selected preformatted web page and generating a merged webpage, a contextual advertising program module 42 and the web sitepublisher for publishing various merged web pages 44, 48, 52 each havinga unique assigned Internet address. The same server address subsumeseach respective assigned Internet address for each merged web page, thatis, the system operator server address is the same in all the assignedInternet addresses and the merged web pages all have a unique assignedInternet address.

Functional block 10 illustrates that a user must sign on or log into thesystem. The following User Profile Table shows typical informationcollected by system 10 when the user initially logs on or signs into theweb page publisher system 10. The User Profile—Table A is supplementalas discussed later in connection with FIG. 11.

TABLE A User Profile Contact data (including zip code) (name, address,etc.) User group(s) Preferences Negative preferences System site historyTotal time on system site Hits on page AA, BB Time on content page AATime on page BB, etc. User's location data I.P. address,longitude-latitude geographic tags Search history Current search historyHistoric search routes System site visit count Q Upload content to sitecount Q-content (content count) (# uploads) Upload comment countQ-critic (critical comment count) (# comments) Referred by *Jim Smith*Referral count Q-refer For all posted content   Page rating or QA rank(1 to 5, 5 being best)   Average rating or ranking, usually an aggregateTotal sales referral fees earned (list fees per content page) Contentprovider account balance Referrer account balance

Of course, the User Profile may contain other information that enablesthe system operator to either generate additional relationaladvertisements or exclude advertisements (negative preferences) andgenerate additional traffic to the merged web pages. As noted infunctional block 12 of FIG. 1, the user uploads content and optionally(OPT) adds a descriptor title to the uploaded electronic content and/ora description or descriptor of the electronic content. Abbreviationsfound in the drawings and sometimes used in this specification areidentified later in the Abbreviations Table near the end of thespecification. The user need not identify a title or descriptor for theuploaded content. All content data, meta tags, descriptors, tags andlabels are uploaded by input 12. In the example shown in FIG. 1, theuser uploads Content A, which is an electronic image or picture of acar, as functional block 14, uploads Content B, which is a video of acar at functional block 16, and uploads Content C, which is a picturefrom a concert and text (txt) describing the concert event at functionalblock 18. The user function 12 uploads each of these contents A, B, C atdifferent times. The content count is then set at 3 uploads. Of course,a plurality or a number of users log into the system and complete theirrespective user profiles (Table A) and are permitted to then upload alarge volumes of content onto web-based system 10 provided by the systemoperator. Commonly, a user uploads one content into the system 10 at onetime. Content A, B, C is shown in order to explain the relationaladvertisements and the merger with preformed web pages.

In system 10, content filter 20 processes the uploaded Content A, B, Cfrom the user. The content filter 20 sometimes operates on the contentitself such as the text in Content C. This semantic analysis of thecontent enables the system to identify, potentially, the band, theevent, or the site (location) of the concert. Therefore, if the uploadedcontent is text, the relevancy factors of the content are found in thesupplied content itself (semantic analysis). Further, the content mayhave indicators or meta data indicating the time the photograph or videowas taken, the camera which captured the picture or video, the date, aswell as the author or creator. Hence, these content relevancy factorsare located and extracted by content filter 20. The content may alsohave geographic data either input by the user upload function 12 as atitle or description or may have meta data with geographic location,time of creation, author or creator, as well as other indicia of contentrelevancy. The I.P. upload address may also have relevancy. The outputsfrom content filter 20 are content relevancy factors A, B, C associatedwith Content A, Content B and Content C. The content analysis andcategory selector 22 determines the hierarchical category of thecontent. Sometimes, the user will select a category such as“automobiles” for car picture as content A. Other times, with respect tocontent C, the text may indicate the category. For example, the bandBlack Eyed Peas may be stored in category selector 22 and the system mayrecognize the band Black Eyed Peas as being associated with musicalentertainment. Therefore, a hierarchical analysis of relevancy factorsis employed by category selector 22. Alternatively, or in additionthereto, an orthogonal based analysis of relevancy factors is processed.Orthogonal analysis involves a relationship between two categories atthe same hierarchical level. Automobiles can be generally orthogonallyclassified with motorcycles but both automobiles and motorcycles fallinto a hierarchical category of vehicles. Further, semantically basedanalysis to obtain one or more relevancy factors can be employed bycategory selector 22.

In any event, a command (cmd) is presented to the database or datacollection 24 of preformed web pages. Data collection 24 includesvarious preformed web pages wherein each preformed web page isassociated in some manner with one or more advertisements. Theassociation may be an electronic link, meta data, an index link or maybe embedded in the ad image. The ads are also stored in data collection24. In any event, preformed web page 26 relates to a “car” category pagehaving ad space 28 with car advertisements 1, 2. Either the preformedweb page includes the ads 1, 2 or these ads are merged into the page bya compiler. Entertainment preformed web page 30 has a sub categoryentertainment-music page. Ad block 32 includes a link or an electronicassociation with entertainment ad 1 and entertainment ad 2. If there isno relationship or match between the content relevancy factors (whichwould include an analysis of the title and descriptor supplied by theuser), then the system activates default page 34 with general ads 1 inad space 36. The match may employ a comparator using these semantic andclassification theories. The command cmd from category selector 22causes the output of a preformatted web page from collection 24 and aninput of the same into compiler 40. Compiler 40 merges the appropriateuser supplied content with the related preformed web page which thenincludes the relational ads. The output of the compiler 40 is an interimweb page which is then processed by contextual advertising program 42.The relational data may be embedded in the page as meta data. Otherwise,data collection 24 has an index system for pages, ads and content. Thecontextual advertising program is known by persons of ordinary skill inthe art. One example of a contextual advertising program is the GoogleAd Sense program, which adds additional ads or inserts additionalrelated advertisements into a web page. In any event, the merged webpage is published at a certain assigned Internet address. Therefore, carpage AA is published as web page 44 having content A and caradvertisements 1, 2, 3 at ad space 46. Car page BB has a differentassigned Internet address (although the same “root” server systemaddress) and includes content B car and ads 1, 2, 3, 4 as generallyshown as published or merged web page 48. Web page 52 is musicentertainment page having music ad X which as been added by contextualadvertising program 42 as well as entertainment ad 1, ad 2, ad 3 inadvertising space 56. Note that the preformed web page 30 includes anentertainment ad 1, and ad 2 but the published merged web page includesan additional music ad X. Music ad X is added by the contextualadvertising program 42.

Examples of categories which may be employed by category selector 22 isfound below in Table B.

TABLE B Categories All Animals Arts and entertainment Business Causesand activism Comedy Education Food Games How to Lifestyle Movies andtelevision Music Nature News and politics Science and technology SportsTravel

Other categories may be added by the system operator.

The design and format of the merged web page may change from category tocategory or the preformatted web pages may be static. For static pages,one content or category page looks fairly similar to another categorypage except for the different advertisements. It should be noted thatthe format of the merged web page is completely within the control ofthe system operator. The user supplies the content on a web page and thecontent area is predetermined on the web page by the system operator forsystem 10.

Regarding the input of the content, the following Table C provides anexample of one type of input page.

TABLE C Example of Operative Input Page Select tabs (functionalbuttons) - horizontal top bar     all content     blogs     photos    videos     documents     links     search     upload Select uploadtype - vertical left side bar     blog     photo     video     document    link View space uploaded item     content info (see Table D)    money earned Select further uploads (functional buttons) -horizontal bottom bar     rate (pull down list; selected by viewer-user)(1 to 5, 5 is best)     favorite (permits user-viewer to link to his orher web page)     flag (indicates special significance)     tag    related content (shows thumbnails of related content with            creator, tags or description, view count,             moneyearned, rating-favorite) Advertisements (includes ad display andhyperlinks)     right side bar, bottom bar, top horizontal bar

Other types of input pages may be utilized.

The following Table D lists the types of electronic content which may beuploaded into system 10.

TABLE D Upload Content Type Blog (text) Photo Video Document (text,embedded image, links) Link

Also with respect to the input, the user may be requested to input areasonable amount of descriptive information regarding the uploadedelectronic content. The following Table E shows typical informationrequested by the system either prior to uploading the content or shortlyafter uploading the content.

TABLE E Content Information Creator (Author) Upload time (or time sinceupload event) Times rated by viewer-user Times designated as favorite byviewer-user Times commented (text) Description (by uploading user) Metatags

FIG. 2 diagrammatically illustrates the content display program 60 and,more specifically, shows two processes: content display routine 60-AAreferring to car page AA, at one unique, assigned Internet address; androutine process 60-BB for car page BB at a different assigned Internetaddress. Both addresses have the same server root address. With respectto routine 60-AA, user 2 added comment text 64 to car page AA 62. Inother words, the content A, which is a picture of a car (see functionalblock 14, FIG. 1), is subject to a second user 2 inserting comments as atext at function 64. The comments may be formatted as a blog entry. Thisincrements comment counts in both user profiles (content provider andcomment provider). The resulting enhanced car web page AA is shown asweb page 66 wherein user 2 text is embedded or inserted or merged intothe car web page AA. A third user 3 adds links or hyperlinks 65 to carpage AA 66. In functional block 42, the system executes the contextualad program discussed earlier in conjunction with FIG. 1. Car page AA 68then includes new ad 70 inserted by contextual ad program 42. Car pageAA 68 also includes user 2 text and user 3 link. The system then goes tothe revenue sharing program 72 discussed later.

Routine 60-BB begins with car page BB 64. The add content functionalmodule 76 notes that user 2, user 3 and user 4 have added content to carpage BB. Functional block 42 indicates that enhanced car page BB hasundergone a contextual ad program routine. New ad 80 has been added bycontextual ad program 42. User 5 is viewing car page BB 48 as shown atfunction block 79. In the following block, car page BB 78 has user 5clicking through a displayed relational advertisement at function 82.This click through activates a hyperlink in the newer ad 80 such thatuser 5 is transferred to a third party web site or an advertiserdesignated web site. The advertiser designated web site 83 permits user5 to engage in a goods or services transaction 84 which, in the exampleshown in FIG. 2, includes goods being transported to user 5 and user 5paying money or other compensation to the advertiser designated web site83. This results in an associated sales referral fee 86 being generatedby third party site server and ultimately this sales referral fee istransferred from advertiser designated web site 83 to the systemoperator supporting car page BB. The associated sales referral fees paidby advertisers or manufacturers supplying the goods or services viaadvertiser web site 83 are well known as “click through fees” by personsof ordinary skill in the art. Sometimes, third party site 83 pays a feejust for the click through without the need for a sale. These fees areclassified herein as sales referral fees. The referral fee 86 is trackedby the system operator operating system 10 as explained later. Thetracker is a simple accounting program accepting periodic electronicreports from web site 83 to the system operator at system 10. Thereports note referral site 78, the click through, and sales 84.Effectively, the referral fee 86 is logged into and associated with thecontent user profile as part of the total sales referral fees and uniquefees associated with content B on merged car web page BB 78.

Referring to the User Profile, Table A, and to content display program60, the system accounts for each utilization of each web siteestablished by each content provider-user. Therefore, the system sitecollects information as to visitor time on content page AA and visitortime on content page BB and also the total visitor time for all thecontent provided by the user content provider. The total time on thesystem site is stored as well as the sequence of views. The user profilealso provides information regarding the user's initial log in site suchas the source Internet protocol or IP address. The system translatesthat IP address into geographic longitude and latitude data. Thisenables geographic relevancy data to be part of the selection processfor the preformed web pages 24 (FIG. 1) or the contextual advertisingprogram 42. The system counts total site hits or visits in the userprofile, Table A, as the total number of viewers that strike or land oncar page AA, as compared with car page BB, or as compared with contentpage C. The user profile also accumulates data noting how often the useruploads content to any other web pages (newly created web pages)maintained by the system. Commentary textual input (cmt) on other webpages by the user is counted. Therefore, the user 2 may add comments(cmt) on car page AA 62 and this increments the user 2 profile andcontent provider AA. In a similar manner, if the comments supplied byuser 2 are critical of the site, the user 2 comment quantity isincremented for user 2 but decremented on the content provider.Alternately, critical comments may not trigger a reduction. User 1 whoposted the content A may have the critical count incremented. Thisindicates that other users have a negative impression of content A. The“referred by” field in the User Profile indicates which person or entityreferred the content provider user to the system operator. The referralcount, Q-referred, indicates how many additional users the profiled userhas added to the system operator site (the profiled user refers othersto the site). The referral data may be hidden from the user and onlyavailable to the system operator. “Referred by” data and “Acts as aReferrer for User AK” data is also collected in the User Profile. TheUser may see the “Acts as a Referrer to” data. The user profile alsoincludes fields for page QA rating or ranking by other users and a totalaggregate rating. Therefore, rather than inputting textual comments byuser 2 and links by user 3, user 2 and user 3 may increment or decrementa quality approval or QA ranking for the quality of the content A on carweb page AA. The QA may be a single token or may be multi-level QAratings like A, B, C and D. As discussed later in FIG. 13, eachregistered user has N tokens (e.g., 5 QA tokens). If graduated, the Usermay assign 5 “A” tokens or 5 “D” tokens. The overall ranking for contenton a single published page is the aggregate of all individual QArankings and the number of users commenting or rating the content isalso calculated as a quantitative number. Sometimes, the ranking isstored as an index with the web page. In other words, if 100 users writea particular comment-like content on the web page, this number “100”indicates a high ranking for the posted content. If the aggregate QAranking (1-5) (5 being the best or high quality), shows a qualitativeranking of 4, the system operator knows that the content is a highquality. As noted later, these metrics are used to alter the sharing ofreferral fee revenues.

FIG. 3 diagrammatically illustrates a page production routine 90.Functional block 92 indicates that the system captures the user'sinternet protocol or IP address (the source of the upload) and alsocaptures the referring web site, if the user has transferred to thesystem web site from another website. This user logs in (assuming theuser is pre-registered) and submits content to the system as an input.Functional block 94 indicates that the system engages the relevancyengine. The relevancy engine operates on the preexisting meta data inthe content uploaded by the user, conducts a contextual analysis of thecontent of any title or descriptor added by the user during the uploadprocess, and also engages the user's profile to conduct a user centricanalysis as well as a user-group centric analysis. An example of auser-group centric analysis is all students that attend University ABCin Any Town, State. A user centric analysis involves, as an example,that the user is a male who lives in Kansas and has interest in vintageautomobiles. In contrast, a “student” user having a user address or zipcode in New York City is more interested in entertainment, such asBroadway shows, as compared to vintage automobiles. Therefore, therelevancy engine for the user in Kansas provides more automobile relatedads such as automobile accessories and automobile entertainment such asNASCAR events. In contrast, the New York City user is provided with moreinformation regarding Broadway shows, concerts in Madison Square Garden,and entertainment events in Atlantic City, N.J.

Functional block 96 notes that the system generates one or morerelevancy factors related to either the supplied content, user data fromthe user profile, predetermined user-group profile and any referralsource data noted by the user. The referral source may be the web sitefrom which the user is referred to the system website or a person orcompany who referred the user. See functional block 92. Functional block98 indicates that the relevancy factors for the electronic contentsupplied by the user are further processed based on higher hierarchicalcategories (see Category Table B or orthogonal expansion from onehierarchical class to another). Functional block 102 sorts andprioritizes these relevancy factors. The sorting-prioritizing function102 may be based upon prior search history of the user (collected in theUser Profile, Table A), the current search history, the purchasingpatterns of the user, the purchasing patters of one or more groupsassociated with the user or other user centric, group centric orhistoric patterns. Function block 104, a comparator, matches the adcontent or, more precisely the add relational data, with the relevancyfactors for the user supplied content. The ad relational data isassociated with each advertisement and each advertisement has someassociation with the preformatted web page. For example, in oneembodiment, each advertisement may include meta data associated with theadvertisement and incorporated in the electronic version of theadvertisement and the ad relational meta data can be matchedsemantically or hierarchically or orthogonally with the contentrelevancy factors, the user profile, and the user title and descriptor,or other information supplied by the user when the user uploads theelectronic content to the system.

Step 106 forms the new web page. This step includes the insertion ormerger with user content the preformed web page and the relational ads.Function 108 repeats the contextual advertising program (program 42 inFIG. 1). This may include a repeat, as noted by branch 109, to therelevancy engine 94. In step 110, the system seeks out additionaladvertisers. This may involve preliminarily posting the merged web pageon the Internet with a publishing engine and operating the contextualadvertising program 42 on the published web page. Step 112 displays anew web page.

FIG. 4 diagrammatically illustrates the relevancy engine 120. Infunctional block 122, new content is added or inputted into the system.Functional block 122 is a meta data sensor which identifies the sourceof the content, classifies the content by type such as a picture, video,text, blog, etc., identifies the date in the meta data with the content,if available, the time, the location or the IP address from which thecontent is uploaded, and the author or creator. Further, functionalblock 122 has a relevancy data extractor which may include a contextualanalysis of the meta data. Functional block 124 is the category selectorwhich may employ a hierarchical or an orthogonal expansion routine. Thecategory selector 124 operates on a category database which iselectronically linked or indexed to preformatted web pages in categories1, 2, 3, ads and a default preformatted web page. Output 128 is thepreformed web page. Function block 130 obtains the user supplied contentand notes the location of the source of the content and the geographicdata associated either with the source (IP data from upload source) orthe user. Functional block 132 adds geographic relevancy to the web pagebeing formatted. Function block 134 obtains information from the userprofile including preferences input by the user during the initial logon (or revision of the user profile), as well as the frequency andhistory relevancy data from the user profile and the group preferences.In other words, all students from a particular university may be groupedautomatically into a group and the preferences of the overall group maybe utilized to better obtain relevancy factors for the particularuploaded content. Function block 136 repeats the system with thereferral source for the user and the referrer preferences and thereferrer profile. In other words, in addition to sharing the advertisingrevenue with the content provider, the system further shares advertisingrevenue with the person or entity who referred that content provider.Therefore, the referral source data and preference in the user profileis an additional indicator of relevancy. Function block 138 adds therelevancy factor data to the web page. Function block 140 processes theweb page through the contextual ad program. See contextual advertisingprogram 42 in FIG. 1. Functional block 142 posts the web page on thesystem server, processes visits through the web page, processes clickthrough data to advertisers and advertising sites from that distinct webpage, posts comments from other users, and posts rankings of the contenton the web page. The relevancy factors compiled for a particular webpage may be including as meta data in the page or may be stored in thesystem database or index associated with the content. These relevancyfactors can be utilized to better enhance the relevant advertisement forthat content web page. Function block 144 repeats the relevancydetection and repeats the contextual advertising program campaign.

FIG. 5 diagrammatically illustrates the ranking and revenue program.Functional block 152 notes that a new web page with new content has beenpublished by the system server. A user and viewers to that web page,rank the content on the web page at block 154. In 156, the systemcaptures the data as a qualitative ranking data or a commentary to thecontent, or a negative comment to the content. Function block 158 countsthe number of users or visitors to that new web page. This isillustrated in routine 60-BB in FIG. 2. Function 160 monitors referralsto that web page from other web sites. Function 162 computes the revenuesplit from referral fee 86 (FIG. 2) for that user supplied content. Therevenue split is computed based upon a predetermined formula (which maybe changed by the system operator in its discretion). The factors whichmay be accounted for in the formula include the quality and quantity ofcontent provided by that particular user, the referral source for thecontent and for the user, total advertisement payments or click throughpayments from that content and web page. The revenue split to thecontent provider preferably will be increased based upon the per pageimpression or views (pp impress). Further, the fee paid to the contentprovider may be increased based upon the per page click through count,may be increased based upon the quality of the content and may increasedbased upon other content posting by the user. Negative comments andrankings may decrement the revenue share. In other words, if a userposts 100 instances of new content on 100 web pages, that user's revenueshare is increased compared to a user that only posts new content on 5new web pages. Function block 164 sub totals the information for thecontent provider and subtotals data for the person or company whoreferred the content provider. The revenue split by the system operatoraccounts for the content provider but also the person or company whoreferred the content provider to the system operator. Function block 166distributes the revenues or banks the revenues fees for laterdistribution in accordance with contractual terms with the systemoperator. Although the revenue share formula is predetermined or pre-setby the system operator, the operator may change the revenue formula tomeet economic conditions.

FIG. 6 diagrammatically illustrates the preview upload and distributionsystem. In functional block 170, the user has input an approved web pagewhich has been published by the system operator on the system server.The content on user web page 170 is a user created video 172. Thesystem, in functional block 174, uses a preview extractor for the videoas well as an indexing system and a publisher. The preview extractorextracts a preview of the text or script (a short quote) from the usercreated video as noted in function block 176. Alternatively, thedescriptor supplied by the content provider may be used. A snippit ofthe scrip or text for the user created video 172 includes a portion ofthe text as well as a hyperlink or bk-link enabling any third party, ifthey are interested, to click on to the bk-link-hyperlink which wouldthen transfer that viewer from the preview to the user created video172, on the system server (see pages 44, 48, 52 in FIG. 1). A snippit ofthe user created video 172 is extracted in the previewer as videopreview 178. The publisher in functional block 174 adds a hyperlink tothe snippit of the video as a preview. The audio from the user createdvideo 172 is segmented and a preview of the audio track is extracted asaudio preview 170. The audio also has a display icon linked thereto witha hyperlink as a bk-link to user created video 172. A single framepicture or image from the user created video is created in functionblock 182. A thumbnail may be created and distributed. The meta dataassociated with the user created field may be utilized as the index inmodule 174. In distributor module 184, the previews are published by thesystem from function block 174. The user may define targeted social websites as distribution sites. Therefore, the text preview is posted onblog 185 a and the text preview is also posted on Wikipedia 185 b. Ofcourse, any site accepting content or any “Wiki” site may be utilized.The video preview is posted on YouTube 185 c. The audio preview isposted on Last FM 185 d. The picture preview 182 is posted on Flickr 185e. Therefore, any person interested in the user created content and usercreated web site from blog 185 a, Wikipedia 185 b, YouTube 185 c, lastFM 185 d or Flickr 185 e can click on the hyperlink from the thumbnailpreview and be transferred to the user's web page with the user createdvideo 172 thereon. Of course as explained earlier, the user web page hasad content relevant of the user as well as the group and othercontent-based items which, hopefully, the visitor will click on the ads,go to the advertiser's designated site, purchase goods resulting in thepayment of associated sales referral fees which are ultimately splitbetween the user supplying the content and the system operator and anyreferral source.

FIG. 7 discloses a functional routine for the upload and preview routine190. In function block 192, the user uploads content into the system. Infunction 194, the system creates a new web page for the user and addsrelevant advertisement to that new web page. In function 196, the systemsubmits the newly created web page to search engines. Optionally, thesystem optimizes the web page for better search engine placement. Instep 198, the user creates a preview of the content or, optionally, thesystem creates a preview. The preview could be an thumbnail, adescription, a snipppit, a quote from the electronic, content, or adescriptor supplied by the user who, in turn, as supplied the electroniccontent. Further, commentary by third party users may be added to thepreview to enhance consumer interest. In step 199, the preview ismodified to include a hyperlink back to the system and to the particularuser web page with the original content. In 202, the user selects whichweb sites are targeted for distribution of the preview plus the embeddedhyperlink. Optionally, the system may default to target web sites listedby the user when he or she initially logged in to the system andregistered with the system. In step 204, that preview is distributed toother third party publishing web sites. In step 206, viewers are linkedfrom the preview back to the original content on the system server andthe original user's web page (see page 52, FIG. 1). In step 208, theviewer sees the web page with the original content and clicks through toadvertisements from the web page to advertiser designated web pages. Instep 209, the system uses a data tracker to account for sales referralfees and splits ad revenue with the content creator and any referralsource of the content creator.

FIG. 8 diagrammatically illustrates the preview system 210. As noted bypersons with ordinary skill in the art, the user inputs or uploadscontent into system 223 via various telecommunications networks commonlycalled Internet 221. The system operator controls system 223. The usermay have a browser input 212 operating on his or her computing device211, normally designated as a client computer. The client computer 211may be any computer based device such as a laptop, PC, personal dataassistant or an Internet enabled cell phone. Further, as described laterherein, the user may activate and download preexisting user controlledcontent on various third party web sites. For example, third party N mayhave a web page 214 on third party server 213. The user may uploadcontent from third party server 217 with upload programs from serversystem 223 and with the permission of third party M. The system,activated either by the user or by the system 223, may extract usercontent from third party server systems 213, 217 and process that usercontent as discussed earlier. A widget 215 may be activated on system213. Another third party web site M 216 has different content on anotherserver system 217. In this instance, the system may have a plug in 219and third party M web site has granted permission as requested by theuser to obtain content from third party M web site owner. In any event,typically, the Internet 221 connection bridges the input system devices211, 213, 217 with the system 223. The system 223 then initiallyprocesses or produces a unique web page 230 which ultimately is assigneda certain unique Internet address. Therefore, for the three web pagesinitially produced at 230, there will be three assigned Internetaddresses.

The relevancy engine 232 operates contextually on the content as well asin a user centric manner and an upload sources centric manner and agroup centric manner. The expansion module 234 expands the relevancyfactors for the uploaded content. The contextual advertising program 236adds contextually relevant ads to the web page being produced by thesystem. Function 238 is a module which repeats the relevancy engine 232and the contextual ad program 236. The web page is supplemented atsupplemental module 240 with related content, thumbnail previews, textand appropriate relevancy terms. The enhanced web pages 242 are thenproduced and posted on the system operator's web site. As statedearlier, the web page addresses all include a singular server addresssuch that all the web pages have a root server address which enhancesthe search engine placement of each page on the system server 223.

The preview extractor 244 operates on the enhanced web pages andextracts previews as discussed earlier in conjunction with FIG. 6. Thepreviewer also adds a page link to the enhanced web page 142. Branch 245sends index terms and relevancy terms to the system 232. This enablesanyone who is on the system server to search all the web pages on theserver and view other relevant web pages. A distribution engine 246further pushes the previews to various other publishers or web sites247, 249 and 251. Content publisher A posts the preview plus the pagelink to enhanced web page 242. Content publisher B on web site 249 maypublish the same preview or a related preview. Content publisher Coperates on a third web site 251. These websites at publishers A, B, Care available through Internet or telecommunications system 221 to thedistribution engine 246 of the system 223.

FIG. 9 diagrammatically illustrates a process flow 270 for uploadingcontent from another web site. In step 272, the user indicates to thesystem operator (system 223, FIG. 8), that content is available on athird party web site. The content being “available” on the third partyweb site must be authorized or approved or created by the user. In step271, the system operator redirects the user to the third party web site.In step 276, the third party web site makes an inquiry to the user: isit acceptable to grant the system server 223 access to the storedcontent on the third party's website. If YES, then the processcontinues. If NO, the process ends. In function 278, the third partywebsite issues a token to the system server for that particular content.In step 280, the system 223 uses the token to copy content from thethird party web site, that content being unique to the user, to thesystem server web site. This is user supplied content. In step 282, thecontent is uploaded to the system operator's website as user providedcontent. The following Table lists the type of user supplied content aswell as third party web sites where that content may be obtained andidentifies the sub-routines permitting the content to be transferredfrom the third party web site to the system server website. For example,video may be obtained on YouTube by the user activating a Revver API onthe YouTube website. The same is true regarding bookmarks and links andcomments and photos. For photos, that photo may be located on the Flickrweb site and the system web site at Flickr may provide a widget or otherroutine functionally permitting the authorized user to copy the usersupply content from Flickr to the web site operated by the systemoperator.

Upload Process: Available Sites and Operation Table Video YouTube,Facebook, MySpace, Google Videos, Yahoo Videos, Dailymotion, Blip.tv,Photobucket, Metacafe Revver, Veoh, Vsocial, Vimeo Upload Operation:Revver API on system site Blogs Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad,LiveJournal, facebook, technorati Upload Operation: Blog plug-ins orsystem site Wiki's Wikia, Wetpaint, Wikispaces, pbwiki, ziwiki UploadOperation: Wiki plugin or system site Bookmarks/Links Delicious,Facebook, StumbleUpon, Newsvine, technorati, slashdot, tailrank, Digg,Furl, Reddit, Fark, Propeller, Magnolia, bluedot Operation: Toolbarbutton; sys. Site Comments Various websites Operation: Toolbarco-comment Photos Flickr, Photobucket, Facebook, zooomr, scrapblog,smugmug, slide Operation: Sys. website Reviews/Ratings Amazon, eBay,epinions, CNET Operation: Toolbar Forums PhpBB, other forum stiesOperation: Toolbar Messages Twither, Facebook, Jaiku, Pownce Operation:Toolbar or sys. site General Social Facebook, MySpace, Linkedin, beboNetwork Operation: Widget, applications Indexed Website Google, Yahoo,MSN, ASK Operation: Sys. site

FIG. 10 diagrammatically illustrates a double relevancy method, systemand program. It should be noted that although databases 324, 326, 330are shown and discussed in connection with FIG. 10, the system mayaccess data collections beyond the confines of the local area network onwhich the system server normally operates. In other words, some of theadvertisement databases may be located on other server networks (such asad networks) and, in order to obtain the relevant ads (keyed to the adrelevancy terms or factors), the system 10 (FIG. 1) accesses those thirdparty databases or data collections via telecommunication channels (suchas the Internet) and downloads the relevant ads for later insertion intothe preformed web pages as discussed herein. For faster re-loading afterinitial download from the third party server system or network, theaccessed ads may be stored in the ad databases 324, 326, 330.

In general, the double relevancy ad program (a) determines the relevancybetween the content provided by a user-content provider; (v) inserts arelevant ad into a defined space in the preformatted web page; (c) thesystem watches and monitors user-visitors who traverse and travel overthe system operator's web site, thereby collecting current sessionhistory information about the user-visitor (in the event that theuser-visitor is a registered user, then the user profile is further usedfor ad monitoring purposes, if the user-visitor has earlier visited thesystem web site, the stored IP address session history is used); (d) thesystem and program then identifies relevancy terms unique to theuser-visitor; and (e) locates associated ads which match theuser-visitor relevancy factors and the ad relevancy terms; (f) mergesthe user-visitor relevant ads into the preformed web page; and (g)publishes the merged ad on the web space and to the user-visitor.

A content provider-user and a registered user log into the system andprogram 300 at function block 310. The system then notes the userprofile and uses the predetermined relevancy factors stored with theuser profile to locate relevant ads as discussed above. A non-registereduser-visitor also travels through the system and, in decision step 312,the system and program determines whether the user-visitor haspreviously traversed the system by seeking to match previously stored IPaddresses with the current IP address of the user-visitor. In onesituation, IP addresses for all user-visitors are stored for a 24 hourperiod. Other storage times for IP addresses may be employed. Thefollowing Table shows data collected by the system and the program 300to track the current session of the user-visitor through the system.This data is also stored for earlier used IP addresses.

Non-Registered User-Visitor Session Capture Profile Table Currentsession history on System Server Total current time on system site Hitson page AA, BB Time on content page AA Time on page BB, etc.User-visitor's location data based upon referral I.P. address,longitude- latitude geographic tags Current session search Referred byXX site Referral count Q-refer Posted content - this session Type ofcontent viewed this session

Function block 314 turns on a “session record” or log function for thesite visitor, whether a registered user, or a previous user-visitor or anew user-visitor. Session record employs the user profile (or an indexthereto), and the former site session history for a previously recordedIP address user-visitor or opens a new record for the IP address of thenew user-visitor. Function block 316 notes the user action on the systemweb site (multiple web pages on the same system server). This may be asearch 318 or a category selection 320. See Categories Table B or InputPage Table C for user selections which are currently available. In anyevent, the system, in step 316, acts upon the user's input request. Thereference, in FIG. 10, to system function (“sys. fnc.”) indicates thatthe system is operating without the display of a web page to the user.System function branch 321 permits an upload of content (“cnt.”) asdescribed earlier in FIG. 1, and for example, permits a search over thesystem web site (multiple pages on the web site), or permits otherfunctions (“etc.”) to be activated by the user as noted in Table Cabove. System function 322 then operates on a content request to get apreformed web page associated with the requested content, or gets a webpage associated with the search term input by the user or obtains adefault web page. See FIG. 1, for example. A command (“cmd”) is issuedto the preformed web page database 324. Content A and Content B webpages are shown in FIG. 10. As an example, web page 325 has Content Athereon and “content ad space” 327 and “user ad space” 329 which, in theweb page in database 324, are blank ad spaces. If the user conducts asearch, the search results may list Content A. It should be noted thatthe preformed web page 325 may have some “static” or non-variable ads init but, in the embodiment shown in FIG. 10, some variable or blank adspaces 327, 329 permit the system and present method to insert morerelevant ads into the preformed web page. Ads relevant to both thecontent and the user's history are located and inserted, typicallysorted by referral fee pricing and payments.

System function 322 also issues a command to content relevant addatabase 326. This is discussed above in detail. The preformed web pagewith variable ad spaces 327, 329 and the content relevant ad fromdatabase 326 is sent to the compiler for merger of the content ad withthe preformed web page. See the double lines in FIG. 10.

The system and method then activates a user relevance engine 328. Thisrelevance engine operates in much the same way as the earlier describedrelevance engines, but operates on the current session history for theuser-visitor, and the user profile if the user is pre-registered, andthe earlier, stored IP history if the user-visitor has earlier visitedthe web site (based on similar IP addresses) and earlier traversed theweb site system. A command is sent to the user relevant database 330 anduser-relevant ads are output therefrom as noted by the double lines tomerger function 334. To enhance the revenue to the content provider (andthe system operator), in the event several user relevant ads and orcontent relevant ads are initially selected, those ads must then besorted and some de-selected by a price discriminator (“discrim.”) 332which is used to select the highest paying ad, that is the ad with thehighest sales referral fee. This is the highest priced ad from therelevant ads initially obtained from content ad database 326 and userrelevant ad database 330. It should be noted that the pricediscriminator may be used with both content relevant ads and userrelevant ads. FIG. 10 shows this selector only with user relevant ads.

As a further enhancement of the system and method, advertiseraggregators or ad networks have been created by third parties. These adnetworks normally have prerequisites which a particular web site mustmeet before the ads stored in the ad networks are downloaded to a website owned by the system operator. The following Tables show ad networkcriteria, examples of some current ad networks and the criteria for oneof the ad networks.

Ad Network Requirements or Criteria Table Minimum or maximum - pageviews/unique viewers Geographic location Content Type LanguageContextual Relevancy Viewer interests Advertisement sizes (banner size)Advertisement type (Video ad, widget, banner ad, survey) Advertisementpayment type (CPM, CPC, or CPA) (cost-per-click, or CPC; CPM, cost perthousand impressions; CPA, cost per action/acquisition). Ad NetworkExample Table (referencing ad and web site requirements pages) Vermedia:English speaking Christian viewers. (http:-veremedia.com/publishers/requirements.htm) Scanscout: Video content anda minimum of 1 million US only viewers per month. (http:-www--scanscout.com/join_now.html) Consorte Media: Hispanic viewers andCPC payments. (http:- www--consortemedia.com/ad_network/signup.php)Admob: Website must be viewed on the iPhone. (http:-www--admob.com/s/home/register/?iphone=1) Glam Media: Blog content thatis women oriented and a minimum of 100,000 viewers per month.(www--glammedia.com/publishers/glam_publisher_network/site_requirements.php) VerMedia Ad Network Requirement Table Vermedia:English speaking Christian viewers. All website content must be inEnglish. The website must attract a Christian or family-orientedaudience. The website must be rich in high quality content. The websitemust not contain, produce or link to profane and/or adult content of anykind. The website cannot contain or be related to anything illegal innature. This includes but is not limited to web sites promoting mp3,warez, EMU, ROM, or any other form of illegal products or content

In order to meet the criteria for a particular ad network, the presentsystem uses the user profile, the prior session history ofnon-registered users and the current session history of theuser-visitor. These session histories permit the present system andmethod to locate and insert more relevant ads into the preformed webpage. Further, the present system and method permits the system toqualify for certain ad networks since the system operator knows whattype of user is currently traversing or visiting the system site andknows what content is of interest to the current user-visitor. Inaddition to the session histories (from the user's profile, from thestored IP address profile and from the current session history), thesystem determines the type of content the user-visitor is currentlyinterested in by the current and past session histories. Theuser-visitor content type also provides relevancy factors which directlyaffect the type of ad and ad network which delivers relevant ads to thepreformed page and, more particularly, to the variable ad space forcontent ads 327 and user relevant ads 329. The Viewer Content Type Tablewhich follows provides and example of the content type which is used bythe ad networks and by the system to select the most relevant ad to theuser-visitor and the highest paying referral ad for the contentprovider.

Non-Registered User-Visitor-Viewer Content Type Table Blog(s) viewed -this session high volume content viewer indicates visitor moreinterested in information rather than people; this is “not social”viwer. Blog comments posted - this session High volume comment providerequals “social” viewer Links uploaded with Comment-Commentary - thissession Pictures viewed Pictures uploaded - this session Videos viewedVideos uploaded - this session Linking history this session Linksuploaded - this session Widgets used and/or uploaded - this sessionViews of Other Person's Profiles on System indicates “social” viewer

Once the relevant content ads and the relevant user ads are selected,and the highest paying ads are selected, the system and method in step334 merges the ads into the preformed web page carrying the Content A.Step 336 is a display or publishing step wherein merged web page 335 isdisplayed to the user. Web page 335 includes Content A, content relevantad or advertisements 337 (multiple ads are typically shown) and userrelevant ads, shown in space 339. As noted in FIG. 10, the systemoperates the revenue program and operates the content upload program (ifthe user-visitor wants to add supplemental content to the web page 335).The revenue program is operated if the user-visitor clicks though thehyperlink in the ad display for the user relevant or content relevant adin spaces 337,339. In step 338, the system updates the user session log.

In steps 340-352, the system repeats the earlier processes. Step 340notes the user's action on the web site and updates the user session logbased thereon. If the user-visitor looks at many other user profiles(see Content Type Table above), then the system notes this user-visitorbehavior and serves up more social site related content or user relevantads. In other words, the type of content viewed and added to the systemoperator web step also provides a relevancy factor or factors about whatthe user is interested in. These relevancy factors are used to serve upor insert, into the preformed web page, more relevant ads hopefully ofinterest to the user. Step 342 activates the content page database. Seesystem function branch 321. In step 344, the system activates thecontent relevant ad database. In step 344, the system activates the userrelevant ad database. Of course, the relevancy engines described earlierare activated as part of the utilization of the databases 324, 326, 330.Step 348 merges the relevant content-based ads and relevant user-basedads into the performed web page with the newly selected Content B. Instep 350, the system publishes, with a publisher, the newly formed andmerged web page to the user-visitor. Step 352 repeats the earlier stepsin an effort to maximize referral ad revenue to the content provider andto the system operator. In this manner, the system and method has adouble relevancy ad engine which is based upon content provided andcontent selected and based upon current and past site session historiesof the user-visitor.

FIG. 11 diagrammatically illustrates a process flow chart and functionalmodules for uploading third party content web site wherein usercontrolled content is uploaded, in an automatic manner, via an importfunction 400 into the system described earlier. Further, FIG. 11 showsseveral types of users-visitors, some registered and some unregisteredusers, viewing the posted or published web page, generating clickthrough and sales commission revenues as well as payment processingmodules that permit the users to withdraw earnings from their accounts.User U1 independently uploads content cnt1, cnt2, cnt3 and cnt4 tovarious third party web sites which, as an example herein, includeFlickr; YouTube; Facebook; and Lastfm. Import function 400, being amodule in the system (see system 223, in FIG. 8), issues upload commandscmd unique to each third party web site. Therefore, in general, the UserU1 profile will include tokens or control keys for Flickr, designated ascommand cmd-Fl, in FIG. 11, YouTube command Y, Facebook command FB andLastfm command LF. These third party web sites must download the contentprovider controlled content cnt1, 2, 3 and 4 due to the control tokensultimately authorized by content provider-user U1. User profile U1 402is generally identified in import function 400 block.

The output from input function block 400 leads to web page compiler 404and ad compiler 406. These functional blocks are described earlier inconnection with FIGS. 1-10. Ultimately, the compiled or merged web pageis posted or published on the Internet at a particular Internet address.Publisher function block 408 indicates that the content is posted as a“cnt page.”

Various users, some registered and some unregistered, view the contentpage 408. These users-visitors are identified as U2, 3, 4 and others.Some of these users are registered and the registered users may postcomments cmt on the content page 408. Other users have quality approvalrating tokens or QA tokens which may be posted on particular content onthat published web page. This is discussed later in conjunction withFIG. 13. The accounting program module 410 carefully monitors theuser-visitor interaction with content page 408. A tracking monitor isused. Some of the users-visitors click on display advertisements oncontent page 408 resulting in the user being transferred a correspondingadvertiser designated web site. The user-visitor employs and operates ahyperlink on the display ad on content page 408. The revenue inputfunction 412 shows that the system obtains click per impression cpmrevenue 414, click through revenue 416 and sales commission revenue 418.From revenue input module 412, account program 410 handles and sharesthis revenue between various participants in the system. For example,the system operator has a transaction fee module 420 which processespaths 421, 423, 425 which show revenue sharing of the input revenuesinto account program 410, 412. Revenue share 421 is dedicated to thecontent provider via a first fee sharing module. Payment processor 430enables the content provider user to withdraw earnings from accountprogram 410 via a designated debit card, credit card, or to deposit theearnings into a financial institution account, a micro payment accountor a virtual currency account. The following Payment and PaymentProcessor Option Table shows various payment actions by the system.

Payment and Payment Processor Option Table

System Condition:

-   -   A. Account exceeds $x (e.g., $25.00)    -   B. User initializes third party payment processor input profile        and processor accepts user data and revenue sharing protocol.        Third Party Payment Processors    -   debit card, linked to financial institution (e.g., bank,        brokerage)    -   smart card (on-board memory) linked to fin. inst.    -   payment toward credit card account    -   cell phone account    -   Pay Pal or other Internet-based payment processor micro payment        processors (Con tenture, Allo pass, Jupiter media, etc.)    -   virtual currency processors (zynge, SGN (social gaming network))

Revenue sharing portion 423 is designated as the referral revenue shareand ultimately the referral revenue share is also sent to paymentprocessor 430. Another fee sharing module is used to compensate personswho refer the content provider U-1 to the system. Revenue path 425 isdedicated to one or more user-viewers who are quality approval QAvoters. Another fee sharing module is used to compensate QA user-voters.As explained later, the QA voters may be grouped in tiers such as afirst tier, second, third and fourth tier or may be compensated on asingular basis.

In addition to the User Profile Table discussed above in connection withFIG. 1, the user has access to an Account display as part of his or herprofile. The Account display, in one embodiment, includes an EarningsTable and a Balance Sheet Table.

Account - Earnings Table View History: All Time (alternative: 30, 60, 90days) Current Rate: $0.82 Views Average Rate Earnings 1.0 All Content4793 $0.99 $4.76 1.1 Blogs <Top> 179 $0.99 $0.17 1.1.1 “Red Gage Rocks”63 $0.99 $0.06 1.1.2 “Neodymium magnets: Beware” 35 $0.99 $0.03 1.1.3“Dragon Letter art” 49 $1.00 $0.04 1.1.4 “PEOPLE” 13 $1.00 $0.01 1.1.5“Moore says..” 11 $1.00 $0.01 1.2 Photos <Top> 3258 $0.99 $3.24 1.3Videos <Top> 68 $1.00 $0.06 1.4 Documents <Top> 0 $0.00 $0.00 1.5 Links<Top> 1288 $0.99 $1.28 2.0 Total Earnings: $4.76 3.0 Feature BonusEarnings: 3.1 Home Page 2Mcpm $.0001/cpm $200 3.2 Content Segment Pagexx xx xx 4.0 Transfer - as User Tip — — $0.50 5.0 Transfer - as UserPayment — — $10.00 6.0 Charity Share — 10% total −$21.05 7.0 ContestDate mm, dd, yr xx 8.0 On Site Activity Level Bonus 8.1 Monthly views(current affinity points 350; threshold needed 500) -0- 8.2 Monthlycontent postings (posts 4; level revenue share Rev1) $2.00 8.3 MonthlyFrequency Posting Quality Rankings (4 posts; thres. 8; -0- level 0) 9.0Earnings Plus Bonus $196.21 Account - Balance Sheet Table View History:All Time (alternative: 30, 60, 90 days) Available Balance $4.76  Withdraw $mm.nn ($15.00 min'm w/d; $25.00 min'm bal.) Description TypeStatus Amount (debit/cr) Balance May 01, 2009 Monthly Earnings dep clear4.40 4.76 Apr. 29, 2009 Bonus earn dep pending 0.25 4.76 Apr. 18, 2009tip to Member AW w/d clear 12.24 4.76 Apr. 15, 2009 debit card w/d clear14.25 17.00 Apr. 15, 2009 transact fee w/d clear 0.75 31.25 Mar. 01,2009 Monthly Earnings dep clear 10.25 32.00 Mar. 01, 2009 Bonus earn depclear 5.75 21.75 Feb. 01, 2009 Monthly Earnings dep clear 10.25 16.00Feb. 01, 2009 Bonus earn dep clear 5.75 5.75 Jan. 01, 2009 MonthlyEarnings dep clear -0- -0- Jan. 01, 2009 Bonus earn dep clear -0- -0-

The Account Earnings Table enables the user to select a “view history”which may encompass the entire account time or, alternatively, aselectable period of 30, 60 or 90 days. Of course, based upon space, thedisplayed history may be limited to a predetermined period of time. TheAccount Earnings Table also shows a current rate or cpm or impressionper thousand value, sometimes called clicks per thousand. In otherwords, if 1000 users-viewers see the content for content provider userU1 and click through on an hyperlink from a display ad to an advertiserdesignated web site, one cpm is counted by the system. If 9000users-viewers click on the ad hyperlink, 9 cpm is tracked by the system.As is known, advertisers pay for click through advertising, sometimescalled “sales referral fees” herein, based upon cpm or clicks perthousand. Returning to the Account Earnings Table, the current rate of$0.82 is the average cpm for all content posted by user U1 and accountedfor in the Account Table section row 1.0 through 2.0. In use, theAccount Table does not include section row indicia 1.0, 1.1, etc.

The Account Earnings Table, in one embodiment, shows all content, thecpm values, and the average cpm rate for the itemized content. Thecontent category is further subdivided into 1.1 blogs, 1.2 photos, 1.3videos, 1.4 documents and 1.5 links. The user may select an appropriatedisplay command to show all blogs under blogs 1.1 such that all thelisted blogs are identified. For example, the user U1 maintains a “redgage rocks” blog 1.1.1 and a different “people” blog 1.1.4. Item 2.0 inthe Account Earnings Table is the total earnings. Section 3.0 of theAccount Earning Table is a listing of all feature or bonus earnings. Rowor section 3.1 indicates that the user U1 has content on the homepagefor the overall system web site. The system operator assigns a bonus forcontent displayed on the system homepage. The Account shows views of 2million cpm at $0.0001/cpm resulting in earnings of $200.00. Row 3.2 inthe Account Earnings Table shows that the content may be on a “segment”or category page. A segment may be “automobiles” as compared to “music”or other general entertainment category. Row 4.0 lists any transfersthat are made from one registered user to another registered user andthese 4.0 transfers are called “tips”. Row 5.0 is a transfer direct fromone user to another user. Row 6.0 is a charity share which the userelects to pay a designated charity from his or her cpm earnings,typically for a certain content page. User U1 may designate that allfuture bonus earnings be subject to a 10% charity share such that theearnings within the “future bonus earnings” group, that is, 10% of thoseearnings, are dedicated and transferred to a designated charity of hisor her choice. Single content may also be selected. The published“charity” content pages will be uniquely marked as “charity donation” onthe designated published web page to drive addition traffictherethrough. Row 7.0 shows earnings from a contest, which, in oneembodiment, is designated by a contest opening date, month, day andyear. Section 8.0 lists on site activity level bonuses. Typically, thesemay be considered affinity rewards or bonuses based upon the user beinga viewer rather than a content provider on the web site. Row 8.1 showsmonthly views for User U-1 and the current affinity point value and thethreshold value needed to achieve a certain predetermined dollar orcompensation bonus. The dollar bonus for the monthly viewers is set bythe system operator in its discretion. Row 8.2 is a monthly contentposting count (quantity). In this situation, user U1 has posted 4content pages in the current month which is set at revenue level shareRev1. A $2 bonus is paid by the system operator for at that revenueshare level. If higher cnt postings are made by user U1, at certainpredetermined thresholds, higher bonus levels are paid. For example, therevenue share bonus level Rev2 may be $10.00 and revenue share levelRev3 may be $20.00.

Row 8.3 is a monthly frequency posting quality rating QA token count. Inone example, each registered user has 5 QA tokens which the user maypost and/or withdraw from any content on a particular published website. In the Account Earnings Table, the user has posted 4 QA tokensthis month. He has one QA token in his account which is not assigned tocontent. The threshold level, set in the discretion of the systemoperator, is 8 QA postings per month. Therefore, the user has notachieved the monthly frequency threshold. If the user posted all 5 QAtokens, and then withdrew and re-posted 3 tokens, he would reachthreshold level 1 (8 QA postings) and get, for example, a $2.00 bonusfrom the system operator.

The row designators 1.0 to 9.0 are not shown in the user Accountdisplay.

The Account Balance Sheet Table listed above also shows a time framewhich is selectable by the user, the user's available balance and thewithdraw request threshold amount shown as $mm.nn. In the currentembodiment, there is a $15.00 minimum withdrawal threshold and arequirement that the user must have an account balance which exceeds$25.00 in order to withdraw or transfer any money to payment processor430. The description, type, status, amount and balance is shown in theAccount Balance Sheet Table. Entries Jan. 1, 2009 shows zero (-0-)amount for monthly earnings and bonus earnings. The Feb. 1, 2009 monthlyearnings and bonus earnings show credits of $10.25 and $5.75. On April14, the user has transferred money from the system account for U-1 andwithdrawn $15.00 worth of earnings, paid to the designated paymentprocessor. Currently, the payment processor is a debit card tied to afinancial institution. The withdrawal of the $15.00, less the systemtransaction fee of $0.75, is sent to the financial institutionmaintaining the debit card for user U-1. The entry of Apr. 18, 2009shows that user U-1 has transferred a tip to member AW of $12.24.Accordingly, member AW account has a credit of $12.24. The Apr. 29, 2009entry for bonus earnings is pending since those earnings have beenposted but not yet received by the system operator in the amount of$0.25. When the status of bonus earnings for April 29 changes frompending to clear, the $0.25 will be added to the balance to show a“cleared” balance.

FIG. 12 diagrammatically illustrates multiple incentives provided forsharing the cpm revenue, those incentives given to viewers in the formof affinity rewards or loyalty rewards, to content provider users, tovoters for quality approval QA posting, to users participating incontests, to users who refer other users to the system, to charity, totips transferred from one registered user to another registered user andto simple transfers on account from one user to another. Cpm revenue andsales commission revenue enter the system 450 at one end. Affinityrewards or loyalty rewards functional module 452 enhances the viewingfrequency and provides an incentive to users and viewers to becomeregistered users. Simply viewing content by a registered user maytrigger a loyalty reward. The on site activity level bonus in theAccount Earnings Table provides some indication of an affinity rewardprogram. Content provider incentive module 454 is discussed earlier.Promotion incentive functional block 456 provides a registered user withthe ability to post QA tokens or rankings on selected content. Contestfunctional block 458 enables a registered user to obtain additionalrewards, prizes and potential earnings from contests maintained by thesystem operator. For example, the contest may include rules such aseveryone who posts any content of any nature within a one month periodhas a “contest ticket” randomly assigned to his or her account. At theend of the month, the system operator will randomly select one thecontest ticket and award a money bonus or something else of value.

The referrer share incentive function 460 indicates that registeredusers who refer other registered users to participate in the system arerewarded. This incentive is discussed earlier. Charity share function462 enables a content provider or other registered user to dedicate acertain percentage of sales referral fees from designated content to besent to a user designated charity. To further incentivize viewers andcontent providers, content web sites are marked with a displayindicating that certain revenues are shared with a designated charity.Function blocks 464 and 466 list transfer payments from one user toanother user. Block 464 is a “tip transfer” similar to a tip given froma patron to a waiter or waitress, that is, from one registered user toanother registered user. Function 466 is a transfer module enabling oneregistered user to transfer some or all of his or her earnings toanother registered user. Revenue sharing module 468 indicates that cpmrevenue and sale commission revenue input into system 450 is shared bycontent providers, persons referring the content providers to thesystem, registered users who place QA tokens, sometimes called QAvoters, and user affinity rewards. Charities also share revenue. Thesystem operator collects processing fees from all these actions.

The shared associated sales referral fee with the content provider-useris based upon a predetermined formula. The formula or algorithm canaccount for various factors including: the supplied content (e.g, if thecontent is high quality of a long video, then the shared revenue fromthe system operator may be higher compared to a single 3 sentence blogentry), a gross value of the associated sales referral fees set by thecorresponding advertiser designated web site (how much cpm is the systemoperator paid and is the cpm to the system operator above a certainminimum amount), the frequency at which the content provider posts othercontent either directly or through automatic third party web siteuploads (frequency of posting), a predetermined user-visitor profile (ifthe user-visitor is a highly regarded critic who posts a favorablecomment, the content provider share of revenue may be increased (e.g.,the New York Times food critic posts a favorable comment on a recipeblog entry posted by a content provider)), a predetermined user-visitorgroup profile (e.g., any posting from the Rolling Stones magazine), auser-visitor referral source (a user referred by a well connectedreferral source may increase the content value), the number ofuser-visitors who go to the published web page with the supplied content(total visitors times the cpm, maybe with threshold steps which increasethe cpm share paid to the content provider (or decrease)), a time ofvisit factor per user-viewer (the longer time users stay on the contentsite indicates higher quality), per visit time on site or an aggregatethereof for each user-visitor who goes to the published web page withthe supplied content, a frequency of return to the published web pagewith the supplied content for each user-visitor who returns to thepublished web page with the supplied content. The content providershared formula may include all or a portion of these factors.

The formula for sharing associated sales referral fee with the user-QAvoter, a registered user-visitor who post quality tokens on qualitybranded content, is also based upon a predetermined quality rankingformula accounting for various factors. Some of these factors arediscussed above in connection with the content provider formula. Thefactors in the QA shared revenue formula are: the total number orquantity of posted tokens on quality branded content, the user'sfrequency of posting quality tokens on QA branded content, the grossvalue of the associated sales referral fee set by the advertiserdesignated web site, the sequential order of posting the QA token byregistered user-visitor compared time-wise with other QA voters, theregistered user-visitor's profile (if the user is a well known critic,the user gets a higher share when the well known critic posts a commenton the content), the registered user-visitor's group profile (e.g., anyQA post from the Rolling Stones magazine), the shared sales referral feededicated to the content provider who supplied the branded content, thenumber of user-visitors who go to the published web page, a time ofvisit factor (when does the user post the QA token), tokens per visit bythe user-visitor or an aggregate of QA postings over a set period oftime (e.g., 12 QA postings in 24 hours of the content post date resultsin a higher QA shared return to the QA poster-voters and the contentprovider than “slower” QA branding on other content), the number ofuser-visitors who go to the published web page with the suppliedcontent, a frequency of return to the published web page, for eachuser-visitor and each user-voter group.

FIG. 13 diagrammatically illustrates the quality approval QA rankingprogram 470. Step 471 indicates that a new user registers with thesystem and completes the user profile. As part of the completion of theuser profile, step 472 has a functional block wherein the system assignsa certain predetermined number m QA tokens to the user. Step 474displays, in the user profile, the number of QA tokens assigned, thenumber QA tokens available for assignment, and also a list of contentwhich currently has been designated as quality approved QA by user U-1.Step 476 is a request (req.) by user U-1 to assign one or more QA tokensto a certain designated web site. Decision 478 determines whether theuser has tokens available for assignment (has the user assigned all mtokens?) and determines whether the QA token assignment is permittedwithin at time frame. The current embodiment of the invention does nothave at time frame lock once a QA token is assigned to content. Anotherembodiment of the invention may require that once a QA token is assignedto designated content by a user, the token must remain on the contentfor a predetermined t period of time, for example, one hour, twenty-fourhours or thirty days. If the decision block 478 is negative, the NObranch is taken and step 477 issues a rejection of the token assignmentrequest and notifies the user of the same. Reset function 479 resetsother tokens in the user profile. If the YES branch is taken fromdecision step 478, in step 480, the system assigns the QA token to thecontent and updates the content provider's account, indicating that aquality assignment QA has been made by a user and also updates a user'sQA data in the user profile. Step 482 is a web page tracker whichmonitors the number of visitors on the web site, the number of clicksfrom ads on the web site, the time each visitor stays on the web site,the number of QA tokens on the site, the length of time each QA tokenstays on the site and other items discussed above. With respect to asingular user U-1 who has posted a token QA on a web site, that user, inthe current embodiment, would be compensated with a share of the salesreferral fees during the time the user U-1 QA token is on the site. Oncethe user takes the token off the content on the published web site, therevenue U-1 share for that QA token ends.

The incentive permits each registered user to quality approve QA one ormore pieces of content on the website and the economic value of thataction is set forth in the following Table A and B. The User ViewerEarly Quality Approving Voters-Influence Reward Table A shows events atcertain time periods t1, t2, t3 and t4. All numbers are examples sinceactual cpm values are set by advertisers.

User-Viewer Early Quality Approving Voters - Influence Reward Table ATime t4 (t1 before t1 t2 t3 t2 > t3 > t4) Viewer Count in cpm .001 5 10150 Creator cpm value base m decr. n decr. o decr. p example 2.11.00/cpm 1.20 1.44 (m > n > o > p) 1.728 ex. Content Creator %* 100% 9080 70 ex. Content Creator cpm 1.00 1.08 1.152 1.2096 ex. $ to ContentCreator 0.001 5.40 11.52 181.44 Sequence of Qual. Rank -none- QA V1 QAV2 QA V3 Total QA Voter share %* -0-  10% 20% 30% Total QA Voter cpm -0-0.12 0.288 0.5184 QA V1 share of V total % -0- 100% 90 80 QA Voter V1cpm -0- 0.12 0.2592 0.41472 QA V2 share of V total % -0- -0- 10% 12 QAVoter V2 cpm -0- -0- 0.0288 0.062208 QA V3 share of V total % -0- -0--0-  8% QA Voter V3 cpm -0- -0- -0- 0.041472 $ to QA Voter V3 — — —6.2208 *The amount allocated by the System Operator to be dedicated topayment of content providers, quality voters and others, in the solediscretion of the System Operator, not the total cpm click-through adrevenue received by the System Operator.

At time t1, there is only one viewer noted on the published web sitewith the merged content. Therefore, the cpm viewer count is 0.001. Attime t2, the cpm count is 5 cpm equivalent to 5000 viewers. Therefore,at time t4, 150,000 users have viewed the published web page. Thecreator has been assigned a cpm value by the system operator as example(“ex.”) 1.00; 1.09; 1.152; 1.2096 and the system operator cpm is 1.00;1.20; 1.44; 1.728 for all compensated parties. The cpm value has somerelationship to the sale referral fees paid by the third partyadvertisers to the system operator. However, the system operatorestablishes the content provider or creator cpm and, further,establishes the referral revenue sharing rate or percentage as a QAtoken incentive rate or percentage. The creator cpm may decrease inamount from m, n, o, and the smallest amount p is based upon increasingthresholds of cpm viewers. In example 2.1, $1.00 cpm is dedicated by thesystem operator as the total incentive cpm payment for all compensatedparties, herein the content creator and the QA voters. See t1 time. At 5cpm, the dedicated “compensated party” incentive is $1.20 and over 100cpm, the dedicated cpm is 1.728. To incentivize the QA voters or usersapplying quality approval QA tokens, the creator share of the salereferral fees decreases from 100% at time t1 to 70% at time t4. However,since there are far greater viewers (150 cpm) at time t4, the earningsto the creator are $181.44 even though the creator or content providershare is 70% of the incentive dedicated cpm at 1.728. In order toincentivize registered users who are early voters (early adopters), theproposed system gives a much higher revenue share percentage to early QAvoters as compared with later QA voters. The sequence of quality voterrankings is 0 at time t1 (no voters), at time t2 there is only one QAvoter V1, at time t3 there is a second QA voter V2 and at time t4 thereis a third QA voter V3. Voter QA V1 has a 10% share of the total cpmallocated to the incentive program at time t2. At time t3, the“incentive pool” cpm has increased to $1.44 and the allocation to thecreator is 80% of the “shared incentive revenue” from the systemoperator and the remaining 20% at time t3 is allocated to all QA votersat that time-based tier. At time t3, user QA V1 receives 90% of the QAshare (90% of $0.288) and user QA V2 receives 10% of the total QA votershare (0.288). At time t4, a third user has voted as QA V3 and thecreator content share of the incentive pool cpm is 70% (70% of 1.728)and the total voter share for the cpm revenue is 30% (see 0.5184). Thetotal QA voter share is split between QA V1 with a share of 80%, QA V2with a share of 12%, and QA V3 with a share of 8%.

User-Viewer Early Quality Approving Voter Tiers - Influence Reward TableB Time t1a t2b t3c t4d Viewer Count in cpm .001 5 10 150 SequentialQual. Rank voter B tier C tier example Voter Tier levels A tier 11-2021-30 <10 ($0 > 30 V) Total QA Voter share % -0- 10% 20%   30% Total QAVoter cpm -0- 0.12 0.288 0.5184 QA V1-A share of V total % -0- 10% 9 8QA V2-A share of V total % -0- 10% 9 8 etc. to V10-A QA Voter V1-A cpm-0- 0.012 0.02592 0.041472 QA Voter V2-A cpm -0- 0.012 0.02592 0.041472etc. to V10-A QA V1-B share of V total % -0- -0- 1% 1.2 QA Voter V1-Bcpm -0- -0- 0.00288 0.0062208 QA V2-B share of V total % -0- -0- 1% 1.2QA Voter V2-B cpm -0- -0- 0.00288 0.0062208 QA V1-C share of V total %-0- -0- -0- 0.8% QA Voter V1-C cpm -0- -0- -0- 0.0041472 QA V2-C shareof V total % -0- -0- -0- 0.8% QA Voter V2-C cpm -0- -0- -0- 0.0041472

The User-Viewer Early Quality Approving Voter Tiers-Influence RewardTable B shows the results when the users are grouped into quantity-basedtiers of voters. In this example, each tier has 10 voters. Table A is asequence time-based revenue sharing plan. Therefore, at time t2b, thereare 10 QA voters or less. At time t3c there are 11-20 QA voters and attime t4d there are 21-30 QA voters. The total QA voter incentive shareis tiered at 10% at t2b, 20% at t3c and 30% at t4d. However, since thereare 10 voters in each tier, the first tier A users QA V1-A through QAV10-A, the first 10 QA voters (tier A), each receive 10% of the total QAincentive voter share of 10% (10% of $0.12). Therefore, if all the QAvoters are assigned in the first tier at $0.12 cpm, then each QA voterin tier A receives $0.012 cpm. With tier B at time t2b, the first tier Areceives 9% of the QA incentive pool (0.288) and the second tier listedby QA V1-B and QA V2-B each receives 1% of the pool. Tier B includesvoters QA V1-B to QA V10-B. At time t4d, the first tier voters QA V1-A,QA V2-A each receive 8% of the total voting compensation share and thesecond tier of voters QA V1-B and QA V2-B each receive 1.2% and thethird tier QA V1-C and QA V2-C each receive 0.8% of the voter cpm. Otherincentive programs and algorithms and formulas may be employed toprovide an incentive to user viewers to post QA tokens on content. Ifany QA voter removes his QA token, all sequential followers move up inrevenue share rank. Alternatively, the sequence time compensation may befixed and the system operator may retain the withdrawn incentivepayment. Of course, the third party advertisers reward content providerswho achieve high quality approval QA rankings. For example, the systemoperator may have a “vote open” time window which subsequently closesand therefore incentivizes early voters. Further, the system operatorcould have a blackout period (no votes accepted) or timeout period suchthat the QA token on a particular content would be removed after acertain period of time. For example, the timeout function may remove aQA token after 30 days. This timeout function clears some “dead weight”QA ratings and further enables and incentivizes the user viewers torepost the tokens. Additionally, the system operator may require thatcontent maintain a certain cpm for a certain period (10 cpm) over a 7day period before any QA token may be posted. The reverse may apply inthat QA tokens may not be posted if cpm exceeds 1,000 cpm. Further,rather than having QA voters stacked in stepwise tiers as noted inInfluence Reward Table B, the QA voters could be individually andincrementally increased in rewards more like Influence Reward Table A.Various mathematical models may be employed to incentivize QA voters,content providers and referrer users. The number of QA voters rewardedmay be set or changed by the system operator. The following GraduatedRanking Table shows a different type of ranking.

Graduated Ranking Table User-Viewer Profile     Quality Approval (“QA”)markers assigned ----- $     QA markers available for assignment ---- $    Graduated scale for each QA marker        A -  4 points        B - 3points        C - 2 points        D - 1 points     Average assigned QAvalue          Content Listings        QA - A  hyperlink content webpage AA-1      Change - delete -        QA - C  hyperlink content webpage AA-3      Change - delete -

The QA tokens discussed in Table A and B above are single value tokens.However, the tokens themselves may have a graduated scale, for example,each QA token may have a graduated value A thru D. A QA token graded Amay carry 4 points whereas a QA token grade D is assigned 1 point.Therefore, the user-viewer posting the QA token has more control or can“fine tune” his or her quality assignment QA to the content. In otherwords, if the user-viewer has five tokens, each worth a graduated scaleA, B, C and D, the user can post first token grade A, second token gradeC, third token grade D, and forth token grade D, and fifth token gradeD, indicating that the user is critical of all content on the site sothe average “grade” of QA tokens is D. The action may be tracked in theUser Profile and the system operator may adjust other factors effectingearnings accordingly. The Graduated Ranking Table above shows that theuser profile may list the content which the user has applied his or hertokens and may list the grade of each token assigned.

FIG. 14 diagrammatically shows the Account Maintenance Program. The leftcolumn in the Account Maintenance Program indicates an action, thesecond column indicates the effect on the content and the third columnon the right indicates the accounting process. In the first row, theuser, as a content provider, registers with the system. The effect onthe content (center column) refers to the function that the content isuploaded through the upload module and further that this upload occursautomatically from the third party site. The system stores the uploadapproved key token from the user content provider. From the accountprocess column, the user initializes the payment account and paymentprocessor. Currently, the payment processor is a debit card tiedelectronically to a financial institution. Earnings from a user'saccount can be transferred to debit card by an electronic command fromthe user. Thereafter, the earnings are transferred to the financialinstitution who issued the debit card. The user can then access moneyfrom the debit card thereby monetizing the content, the referral fees,and the user QA incentives.

The second row shows an action from a third party site wherein theeffect on content is an automatic upload of content from the third partysite. The fourth row notes that the system operates and posts contentwith relevant ads on the system web site. The account process for thepost content step increments the content provider user profile. The nextaction involves other users or other content providers and the effect onthe content is to view the content on the published web page, to postlinks on the published content, to assign QA quality approval tokens orrankings to the content and to promote other content providers to postcomments on the published web page. The account process increments thecontent provider's profile as well as increments the QA voter-userprofile and the comment provider profile. In the next action, the systemaccumulates click through ad revenue and sale commission revenue basedupon the performance of the content in the Internet marketplace. Theaccount process enables the system to update the content providerearnings table and update the referral earnings table and update the QAvoter-user earnings table. The next action involves the system and thecontent provider account or referral account or QA voter-user accountand, particularly, indicates an action when the earnings account exceedsan account threshold. In one embodiment, the earnings disbursal accountthreshold is $25.00. The effect on content is to email or otherwisenotice the content provider, QA voter etc. The account process enablesthe content provider or QA voter to transfer money from the earningsaccount to the identified payment processor. The last action in the lastrow indicates the system has no effect on the content but, the accountprocess resets the content provider account value and all other accountvalues to reflect transfer out of the earnings to the payment processor.

General System Description

The following Abbreviations Table lists items shown in the drawings andexplained above.

Abbreviations Table acct account ad advertisement Admin Administratoramt amount ASP application service provider - server on a network APIapplication program interface app approve, such as the application of aquality token to approve the quality of on-line content ave average, amathematical function or result bd board cat category CD-RW compact diskdrive with read/write feature for CD disk comm. communications,typically telecommunications cmd command cmt comment, such a posting acomment related to on-line posted content cnt content comm'n commissionas in sales commission cpm 1000 consumer or viewer impressions or viewson a web page, “m” is “mil” for 1,000 CPU central processing unit crdcard, as in debit card or credit card cr. crd. credit card db databasedecr decrement or reduce in value disp display or code doc document drdrive, e.g., computer hard drive descrpt description earn earnings,usually estimated earnings equip equipment ent entertainment ex examplefin financial as in bank, brokerage fin inst financial institution freqfrequency fnc function, as in system function geo geographic location orcode gen general hist historic as in historic session records id'didentified or earlier input into the system as being associated with thelisted item I/O input/output IP Internet Protocol such as IP addressincr increase or increment loc location mem memory mess message as inSMS or text message obj object, for example, a data object pgm programPro provider, such as provider of content P/W password pg web page ppimpress per page impression or view pix picture, usually digital pictureor image pmt payment Q quantity QA quality approved token or marker,such as a User placing a QA token for on-line content posted by aContent Provider qual quality such as a QA token or marker rcd databaserecord or record profile re regarding or relating to reg'd registered asin reg'd user reg registered as in reg user rel relevancy or relevantreq request rev review rpt Report sch search sel select or selector syssystem sess session t time txt text tele-com telecommunications systemor network thres threshold, or a fixed valve which, when reached by theidentified quantity, triggers another event tot total URL UniformResource Locator, x pointer, or other network locator vid video

Persons of ordinary skill in the art recognize that the users of themethod and system employ respective computers or computing devices suchas personal data assistants or Internet enabled cell phones to uploadcontent to the operating system. See FIG. 1, content upload 12, usersign-on 10 and the content filter 20 on server system 10, compiler 40and web page data base 34 all on the server system 10 operated by thesystem operator. A global telecommunications system or Internet 221 inFIG. 8 enables communication and data transport between a plurality ofrelatively independent computer systems or computer enabled devicesoperated by the users. As known, a client-based user computer systemincludes a monitor or display unit for browser 212 to see the content tobe uploaded, an input device or keypad used to issue commands and addtextual content to be uploaded to the system, sometimes a command orinput device—mouse, and the server system 10 (FIG. 1) has a centralprocessor unit operative with the data base 24. The processor unitoperates with a memory and an input/output or I/O device or module. Itshould be appreciated that the memory represents many types of datastorage including hard drives, volatile and non-volatile memory, andremovable drives. Also, the I/O represents a plurality of input/outputdevices which are utilized to couple items which are peripheral toprocessing unit. The I/O is connected to Internet 221. At the system, acomputer is designated as an administrative computer which assists inthe overall control and operation of the system and the method describedherein. User computers are client computer systems 211 operated by userswho upload data via the Internet 221. Third party computing systems 213,217 are connected to Internet 221 and ultimately to system 223 whichoperates the method described herein. Other computer servers 247, 249,251 publish previews via Internet 221.

In a preferred embodiment, the system 10,223 and method are deployed onInternet 221 (FIG. 8) via computer system server 223. The server systemincludes a CPU, memory units and an I/O and is coupled to Internet 221.

In a preferred embodiment, uploaded content or user visits to the serversystem 223 are obtained by utilizing a web browser 212 or other type ofinterface on a user's computer 211 (a client computer) as deployed byserver system 223. The information obtained by computer sever system 223is generally stored in server memory. See, for example, data base 24.Thereafter, the information is processed by server system 223 and theoutput information representing processed data is delivered to the usercomputer 211 via Internet 221 or to other web sites or publishers 247,249, 251, via Internet 221.

Discussion of Hardware and Software Implementation Options

The present invention could be produced in hardware or software, or in acombination of hardware and software, and these implementations would beknown to one of ordinary skill in the art. See relevancy engine 232 andthe process in FIG. 4. The system, or method, according to the inventiveprinciples as disclosed in connection with the preferred embodiments,may be produced in a single computer system having separate elements ormeans for performing the individual functions or steps described orclaimed or one or more elements or means combining the performance ofany of the functions or steps disclosed or claimed, or may be arrangedin a distributed computer system, interconnected by any suitable meansas a local area network (LAN) or widely distributed network (WAN) over atelecommunications system (such as the Internet) as would be known to aperson of ordinary skill in the art.

According to the inventive principles as disclosed in connection withthe preferred embodiments, the invention and the inventive principlesare not limited to any particular kind of computer system but may beused with any general purpose computer, as would be known to a person ofordinary skill in the art, arranged to perform the functions describedand the method steps described herein. The operations of such acomputer, as described above, may be according to a computer programcontained on a medium for use in the operation or control of thecomputer, as would be known to person of ordinary skill in the art. Thecomputer medium which may be used to hold or contain the computerprogram product, may be a fixture of the computer such as an embeddedmemory or may be on a transportable medium such as a disk, as would beknown to one of ordinary skill in the art.

The invention is not limited to any particular computer program or logicor language, or instruction but may be practiced with any such suitableprogram, logic or language, or instructions as would be known to one ofordinary skill in the art. Without limiting the principles of thedisclosed invention any such computing system can include, inter alia,at least a computer readable medium allowing a computer to read data,instructions, messages or message packets, and other computer readableinformation from the computer readable medium. The computer readablemedium may include non-volatile memory, such as ROM, flash memory,floppy disk, disk drive memory, CD-ROM or other optical memory storagedevices, and other permanent storage. Additionally, a computer readablemedium may include, for example, volatile storage such as RAM, buffers,cache memory, and network circuits.

Furthermore, the computer readable medium may include computer readableinformation in a transitory state medium such as a network link and/or anetwork interface, including a wired network or a wireless network, thatallow a computer to read such computer readable information.

The claims appended hereto are meant to cover modifications and changeswithin the spirit and scope of the present invention.

1. A method of sharing revenue with a content provider supplyingelectronic content wherein some electronic content is directly suppliedby said content provider and some is preexisting provider controlledcontent from various third party content web sites and wherein thesupplied electronic content is merged into a web page withadvertisements relevant to said content and advertisements relevant to auser-visitor, said user-visitor being one user of a plurality ofregistered users and non-registered users who view the merged web pagecomprising: maintaining a plurality of web pages; maintaining access toa plurality of ads, said ads being content or user relatedadvertisements, each ad having content or user ad relational dataassociated therewith and a respective ad display and hyperlink to acorresponding advertiser designated web site; accepting and uploading,as supplied electronic content, both direct supplied content andpreexisting content from said third party content web sites; determiningfrom the supplied electronic content and said user-visitor one or morecontent or user relevancy factors related to one or more of: thesupplied content, the content provider, a predetermined user profile forsaid content provider, a predetermined user group profile for saidcontent provider, and a referral source for said content provider; auser-visitor session history; a predetermined user-visitor profile; apredetermined user-visitor group profile; and a referral source for saiduser-visitor; matching the determined relevancy factors with said adrelational data; merging one web page with said supplied electroniccontent, one or more ads having matching relevancy factors and adrelational data, wherein the matching ads have respective ad displaysand corresponding hyperlinks; and publishing the merged web page on theInternet at an assigned Internet address; tracking associated salesreferral fees made via a user-visitor selected ad display and hyperlinkfrom the merged web page; sharing said associated sales referral feeswith said content provider based upon a predetermined formula accountingfor one or more of: the supplied content, a gross value of saidassociated sales referral fees set by said corresponding advertiserdesignated web site, a frequency of posting other content supplied bysaid content provider, a predetermined user-visitor profile, apredetermined user-visitor group profile, a user-visitor referralsource, the number of user-visitors who go to the published web pagewith the supplied content, a time of visit factor, per visit or anaggregate thereof, for each user-visitor who goes to the published webpage with the supplied content, a frequency of return to the publishedweb page with the supplied content for each user-visitor who returns tothe published web page with the supplied content, the shared salesreferral fees transferred to one payment processor from the group ofprocessors including: a debit card account maintained by a financialinstitution; a credit card account maintained by a financialinstitution; a cell phone account maintained by a telecommunicationsinstitution; an Internet-based payment processor; a micropaymentprocessor; and a virtual currency processor; a plurality of registereduser-visitors each have a predetermined number of quality tokens whichtokens can be posted in conjunction with the supplied content on saidmerged web page as an indicia of quality for the content; sharing saidassociated sales referral fees with some or all of registereduser-visitors who post quality tokens on quality branded content basedupon a predetermined quality ranking formula accounting for one or moreof: a quantity of posted tokens on branded content, a frequency ofposting quality tokens on all branded content, a gross value of saidassociated sales referral fees set by said corresponding advertiserdesignated web site, a sequential order of posting, by registereduser-visitors, of quality tokens on branded content, a predeterminedregistered user-visitor profile, a predetermined registered user-visitorgroup profile, the shared sales referral fee for said content providerwho supplied the branded content, the number of user-visitors who go tothe published web page with the supplied content, a time of visitfactor, per visit or an aggregate thereof, for each user-visitor whogoes to the published web page with the supplied content, a frequency ofreturn to the published web page with the supplied content for eachuser-visitor who returns to the published web page with the suppliedcontent.
 2. A method of sharing revenue with a content provider asclaimed in claim 1 wherein the shared registered user-visitor salesreferral fees transferred to one payment processor from the group ofprocessors including: a debit card account maintained by a financialinstitution; a credit card account maintained by a financialinstitution; a cell phone account maintained by a telecommunicationsinstitution; an Internet-based payment processor; a micropaymentprocessor; and a virtual currency processor.
 3. A method of sharingrevenue with a content provider as claimed in claim 2 wherein saidcontent provider or one of said registered user-visitors is designatedas a transferor and the method includes transferring the shared salesreferral fees from said transferor to one of another registereduser-visitor or another content provider.
 4. A method of sharing revenuewith a content provider as claimed in claim 2 wherein said contentprovider or one of said registered user-visitors is designated as acharitable transferor and the method includes transferring the sharedsales referral fees from said charitable transferor to a designatedcharity, designated by one or more registered user-visitors or one ormore content providers.
 5. A method of sharing revenue with a contentprovider as claimed in claim 2 wherein the sharing said associated salesreferral fees with some or all of registered user-visitors who postquality tokens is based upon the length of time posted tokens remain onthe content of the merged web page.
 6. A method of sharing revenue witha content provider as claimed in claim 1 including: incentivizingregistered user-visitors by providing each registered user-visitor witha predetermined quantity of quality ranking tokens, by sharing saidassociated sales referral fees with some or all of registereduser-visitors who post quality tokens in conjunction with content onsaid merged web page based upon a predetermined quality ranking formula.7. A method of sharing revenue with a content provider as claimed inclaim 6 wherein said predetermined quality ranking formula accounts forthe quantity of posted tokens, the sequential order of posting and thenumber of user-visitors who go to the published web page with thesupplied content, and the shared sales referral fee for said contentprovider who supplied the content subject to the posted quality tokens.8. A method of sharing revenue with a content provider as claimed inclaim 2 wherein said predetermined quality ranking formula accounts forthe quantity of posted tokens, the sequential order of posting and thenumber of user-visitors who go to the published web page with thesupplied content, and the shared sales referral fee for said contentprovider who supplied the content subject to the posted quality tokens.9. A method of sharing revenue with a content provider as claimed inclaim 8 wherein said content provider or one of said registereduser-visitors is designated as a transferor and the method includestransferring the shared sales referral fees from said transferor to oneof another registered user-visitor or another content provider.
 10. Amethod of sharing revenue with a content provider as claimed in claim 9wherein said content provider or one of said registered user-visitors isdesignated as a charitable transferor and the method includestransferring the shared sales referral fees from said charitabletransferor to a designated charity, designated by one or more registereduser-visitors or one or more content providers.
 11. A method of sharingrevenue with a content provider as claimed in claim 10 wherein thesharing said associated sales referral fees with some or all ofregistered user-visitors who post quality tokens is based upon thelength of time posted tokens remain on the content of the merged webpage.
 12. A method of sharing revenue with a content provider as claimedin claim 1 wherein the transfer to said one payment processor is subjectto a transaction fee and predetermined monetary thresholds.
 13. A methodof sharing revenue with a content provider as claimed in claim 11wherein the transfer to said one payment processor is subject to atransaction fee and predetermined monetary thresholds.
 14. A method ofsharing revenue with a content provider supplying electronic contentwherein some electronic content is directly supplied by said contentprovider and some is preexisting provider controlled content fromvarious third party content web sites and wherein the suppliedelectronic content is merged into a web page with advertisementsrelevant to said content and advertisements relevant to a user-visitor,said user-visitor being one user of a plurality of registered users andnon-registered users who view the merged web page comprising:maintaining a plurality of web pages; maintaining access to a pluralityof ads, said ads being content or user related advertisements, each adhaving content or user ad relational data associated therewith and arespective ad display and hyperlink to a corresponding advertiserdesignated web site; accepting and uploading, as supplied electroniccontent, both direct supplied content and preexisting content from saidthird party content web sites; determining from the supplied electroniccontent and said user-visitor one or more content or user relevancyfactors related to one or more of: the supplied content, the contentprovider, a predetermined user profile for said content provider, apredetermined user group profile for said content provider, and areferral source for said content provider; a user-visitor sessionhistory; a predetermined user-visitor profile; a predetermineduser-visitor group profile; and a referral source for said user-visitor;matching the determined relevancy factors with said ad relational data;merging one web page with said supplied electronic content, one or moreads having matching relevancy factors and ad relational data, whereinthe matching ads have respective ad displays and correspondinghyperlinks; and publishing the merged web page on the Internet at anassigned Internet address; tracking associated sales referral fees madevia a user-visitor selected ad display and hyperlink from the merged webpage; incentivizing the content provider who supplied content to themerged web page by sharing said associated sales referral fees with saidcontent provider based upon a predetermined formula accounting for afrequency of posting other content supplied by said content provider,quality rankings posted by registered user-visitors, a gross value ofsaid associated sales referral fees set by said corresponding advertiserdesignated web site, and the number of user-visitors who go to thepublished web page with the supplied content; incentivizing registereduser-visitors by providing each registered user-visitor with apredetermined quantity of quality ranking tokens, by sharing saidassociated sales referral fees with some or all of registereduser-visitors who post quality tokens in conjunction with content onsaid merged web page based upon a predetermined quality ranking formulaaccounting for the quantity of posted tokens, the sequential order ofposting and the number of user-visitors who go to the published web pagewith the supplied content, and the shared sales referral fee for saidcontent provider who supplied the content subject to the posted qualitytokens; the shared sales referral fees transferred, under the control ofthe incentivized content provider or incentivized registereduser-visitors, to one payment processor from the group of processors,designated by said respective incentivized content providers orregistered user-visitors, including: a debit card account maintained bya financial institution; a credit card account maintained by a financialinstitution; a cell phone account maintained by a telecommunicationsinstitution; an Internet-based payment processor; a micropaymentprocessor; and a virtual currency processor; wherein the sharing saidassociated sales referral fees with said content provider and some orall of registered user-visitors who post quality tokens is based uponthe length of time posted tokens remain on the content of the merged webpage.
 15. A method of sharing revenue with a content provider as claimedin claim 14 wherein said content provider or one of said registereduser-visitors is designated as a transferor and the method includestransferring a designated portion of the shared sales referral fees fromsaid transferor to one of another registered user-visitor or anothercontent provider.
 16. A method of sharing revenue with a contentprovider as claimed in claim 15 wherein said content provider or one ofsaid registered user-visitors is designated as a charitable transferorand the method includes transferring a designated charitable portion ofthe shared sales referral fees from said charitable transferor to adesignated charity, designated by one or more registered user-visitorsor one or more content providers.
 17. A method of sharing revenue with acontent provider as claimed in claim 16 wherein the transfer to said onepayment processor is subject to a transaction fee and predeterminedmonetary thresholds.
 18. A method of sharing revenue with a contentprovider as claimed in claim 14 wherein the transfer to said one paymentprocessor is subject to a transaction fee and predetermined monetarythresholds.
 19. A method of sharing revenue with a content providersupplying electronic content wherein some electronic content is directlysupplied by said content provider and some is preexisting providercontrolled content from various third party content web sites andwherein the supplied electronic content is merged into a web page withadvertisements relevant to said content and advertisements relevant to auser-visitor, each ad having a respective ad display and hyperlink to acorresponding advertiser designated web site, said user-visitor beingone user of a plurality of registered users and non-registered users whoview the merged web page comprising: publishing a web page with saidsupplied electronic content and one or more ads having respective addisplays and corresponding hyperlinks on the Internet at an assignedInternet address; tracking associated sales referral fees made via auser-visitor selected ad display and hyperlink from the published webpage; incentivizing the content provider who supplied content to thepublished web page by sharing said associated sales referral fees withsaid content provider based upon a predetermined formula accounting fora frequency of posting other content supplied by said content provider,quality rankings posted by registered user-visitors, a gross value ofsaid associated sales referral fees set by said corresponding advertiserdesignated web site, and the number of user-visitors who go to thepublished web page with the supplied content; incentivizing registereduser-visitors by providing each registered user-visitor with apredetermined quantity of quality ranking tokens, by sharing saidassociated sales referral fees with some or all of registereduser-visitors who post quality tokens in conjunction with content onsaid published web page based upon a predetermined quality rankingformula accounting for the quantity of posted tokens, the sequentialorder of posting and the number of user-visitors who go to the publishedweb page with the supplied content, and the shared sales referral feefor said content provider who supplied the content subject to the postedquality tokens; the shared sales referral fees transferred, under thecontrol of the incentivized content provider or incentivized registereduser-visitors, to one payment processor from the group of processors,designated by said respective incentivized content providers orregistered user-visitors, including: a debit card account maintained bya financial institution; a credit card account maintained by a financialinstitution; a cell phone account maintained by a telecommunicationsinstitution; an Internet-based payment processor; a micropaymentprocessor; and a virtual currency processor; wherein the sharing saidassociated sales referral fees with said content provider and some orall of registered user-visitors who post quality tokens is based uponthe length of time posted tokens remain on the content of the publishedweb page.
 20. A method of sharing revenue with a content provider asclaimed in claim 19 wherein said content provider or one of saidregistered user-visitors is designated as a transferor and the methodincludes transferring a designated portion of the shared sales referralfees from said transferor to one of another registered user-visitor oranother content provider.
 21. A method of sharing revenue with a contentprovider as claimed in claim 20 wherein said content provider or one ofsaid registered user-visitors is designated as a charitable transferorand the method includes transferring a designated charitable portion ofthe shared sales referral fees from said charitable transferor to adesignated charity, designated by one or more registered user-visitorsor one or more content providers.
 22. A method of sharing revenue with acontent provider as claimed in claim 21 wherein the transfer to said onepayment processor is subject to a transaction fee and predeterminedmonetary thresholds.
 23. A method of sharing revenue with a contentprovider as claimed in claim 19 wherein the transfer to said one paymentprocessor is subject to a transaction fee and predetermined monetarythresholds.
 24. A non-transitory computer readable medium containingprogramming instructions stored thereon for sharing revenue with acontent provider supplying electronic content wherein some electroniccontent is directly supplied by said content provider and some ispreexisting provider controlled content from various third party contentweb sites and wherein the supplied electronic content is merged into aweb page with advertisements relevant to said content and advertisementsrelevant to a user-visitor, each ad having a respective ad display andhyperlink to a corresponding advertiser designated web site, saiduser-visitor being one user of a plurality of registered users andnon-registered users who view the merged web page, the programminginstructions comprising: publishing a web page with said suppliedelectronic content and one or more ads having respective ad displays andcorresponding hyperlinks on the Internet at an assigned Internetaddress; tracking associated sales referral fees made via a user-visitorselected ad display and hyperlink from the published web page;incentivizing the content provider who supplied content to the publishedweb page by sharing said associated sales referral fees with saidcontent provider based upon a predetermined formula accounting for afrequency of posting other content supplied by said content provider,quality rankings posted by registered user-visitors, a gross value ofsaid associated sales referral fees set by said corresponding advertiserdesignated web site, and the number of user-visitors who go to thepublished web page with the supplied content; incentivizing registereduser-visitors by providing each registered user-visitor with apredetermined quantity of quality ranking tokens, by sharing saidassociated sales referral fees with some or all of registereduser-visitors who post quality tokens in conjunction with content onsaid published web page based upon a predetermined quality rankingformula accounting for the quantity of posted tokens, the sequentialorder of posting and the number of user-visitors who go to the publishedweb page with the supplied content, and the shared sales referral feefor said content provider who supplied the content subject to the postedquality tokens; the shared sales referral fees transferred, under thecontrol of the incentivized content provider or incentivized registereduser-visitors, to one payment processor from the group of processors,designated by said respective incentivized content providers orregistered user-visitors, including: a debit card account maintained bya financial institution; a credit card account maintained by a financialinstitution; a cell phone account maintained by a telecommunicationsinstitution; an Internet-based payment processor; a micropaymentprocessor; and a virtual currency processor; wherein the sharing saidassociated sales referral fees with said content provider and some orall of registered user-visitors who post quality tokens is based uponthe length of time posted tokens remain on the content of the publishedweb page.
 25. A non-transitory computer readable medium containingprogramming instructions stored thereon for sharing revenue with acontent provider as claimed in claim 24 wherein said content provider orone of said registered user-visitors is designated as a transferor andthe program includes transferring a designated portion of the sharedsales referral fees from said transferor to one of another registereduser-visitor or another content provider.
 26. A non-transitory computerreadable medium containing programming instructions stored thereon forsharing revenue with a content provider as claimed in claim 25 whereinsaid content provider or one of said registered user-visitors isdesignated as a charitable transferor and the program includestransferring a designated charitable portion of the shared salesreferral fees from said charitable transferor to a designated charity,designated by one or more registered user-visitors or one or morecontent providers.
 27. A non-transitory computer readable mediumcontaining programming instructions stored thereon for sharing revenuewith a content provider as claimed in claim 26 wherein the transfer tosaid one payment processor is subject to a transaction fee andpredetermined monetary thresholds.
 28. A non-transitory computerreadable medium containing programming instructions stored thereon forsharing revenue with a content provider as claimed in claim 24 whereinthe transfer to said one payment processor is subject to a transactionfee and predetermined monetary thresholds.
 29. An information processingsystem for sharing revenue with a content provider supplying electroniccontent wherein some electronic content is directly supplied by saidcontent provider and some is preexisting provider controlled contentfrom various third party content web sites and wherein the suppliedelectronic content is merged into a web page with advertisementsrelevant to said content and advertisements relevant to a user-visitor,each ad having a respective ad display and hyperlink to a correspondingadvertiser designated web site, said user-visitor being one user of aplurality of registered users and non-registered users who view themerged web page, the system comprising: a publisher, coupled to theInternet, publishing a web page with said supplied electronic contentand one or more ads having respective ad displays and correspondinghyperlinks on the Internet at an assigned Internet address; anassociated sales referral fee tracker operatively coupled to thepublished web page with ads and hyperlinks, the tracker monitoring auser-visitor selected ad display and hyperlink from the published webpage; a first fee sharing module, coupled to said sales referral feetracker, incentivizing the content provider who supplied content to thepublished web page by sharing said associated sales referral fees withsaid content provider based upon a predetermined formula accounting fora frequency of posting other content supplied by said content provider,quality rankings posted by registered user-visitors, a gross value ofsaid associated sales referral fees set by said corresponding advertiserdesignated web site, and the number of user-visitors who go to thepublished web page with the supplied content; a second fee sharingmodule, coupled to said sales referral fee tracker, incentivizingregistered user-visitors by providing each registered user-visitor witha predetermined quantity of quality ranking tokens, by sharing saidassociated sales referral fees with some or all of registereduser-visitors who post quality tokens in conjunction with content onsaid published web page based upon a predetermined quality rankingformula accounting for the quantity of posted tokens, the sequentialorder of posting and the number of user-visitors who go to the publishedweb page with the supplied content, and the shared sales referral feefor said content provider who supplied the content subject to the postedquality tokens; a payment transfer module for the shared sales referralfees, said transfer module transferring, under the control of theincentivized content provider or incentivized registered user-visitors,shared associated sales referral fees to one payment processor from thegroup of processors, designated by said respective incentivized contentproviders or registered user-visitors, including: a debit card paymentprocessor maintained by a financial institution; a credit card paymentprocessor maintained by a financial institution; a cell phone paymentprocessor maintained by a telecommunications institution; anInternet-based payment processor; a micropayment payment processor; anda virtual currency payment processor.
 30. An information processingsystem for sharing revenue with a content provider as claimed in claim29 wherein said content provider or one of said registered user-visitorsis designated as a transferor and the system includes a fee transfermodule for transferring a designated portion of the shared salesreferral fees from said transferor to one of another registereduser-visitor or another content provider.
 31. An information processingsystem for sharing revenue with a content provider as claimed in claim30 wherein said content provider or one of said registered user-visitorsis designated as a charitable transferor and the system includes acharity fee transfer module for transferring a designated charitableportion of the shared sales referral fees from said charitabletransferor to a designated charity, designated by one or more registereduser-visitors or one or more content providers.
 32. An informationprocessing system for sharing revenue with a content provider as claimedin claim 31 wherein the first and second fee sharing module monitors thelength of time posted tokens remain on the content of the published webpage and adjusts the shared associated sales referral fees with saidcontent provider and some or all of registered user-visitors who postquality tokens on the content of the published web page.
 33. Aninformation processing system for sharing revenue with a contentprovider as claimed in claim 32 wherein the payment transfer moduleapplies a transaction fee and predetermined monetary thresholds totransfers.
 34. An information processing system for sharing revenue witha content provider as claimed in claim 29 wherein the payment transfermodule applies a transaction fee and predetermined monetary thresholdsto transfers.